Every Road Does Not Lead to Heaven (Edited by ChatGPT)

  

Jesus said those who walk in the light will not stumble as those who are under the influence of darkness do by default. Light is Jesus, light is the Heavenly Father, and light is the Holy Spirit. Some of this light is always available in the Bible, but the fullness of the light is manifested in the word and life of the Lord Jesus Christ — the Word which became flesh, which died for our sin, rose from the dead, and now stands at the right hand of the Lord.

 

But why is it that our church history is almost a history of failure, and even when the fruit of heaven starts to germinate, very soon the devil takes over and leads us astray? It is because we come with the Lord from our Egypt of sin and worldly life, and we are baptized by the Red Sea while drinking the blood and eating the living flesh of the living rock — the Lord Jesus Christ — but Egypt lives in us.

 

We come from the world after dying in the baptism water in flesh and being born again in Spirit by the Holy Spirit who raised the Lord from the dead. Now we are expected to live for the Lord and by the way of the Lord, as our faith is faith of obedience. We are supposed to hang ourselves on the cross and be washed out with the baptism water so as to be born again as a new creation in the Spirit of the Lord.

 

As we obey God and are transformed from glory to glory into the image of Jesus, the Holy Spirit who raised the Lord from the dead will also give life to our dead body and will make us heavenly persons dealing with earthly issues. We will not think like everyone, we will not live like everyone, and we will not talk like everyone, because the one who is in us is not in everyone. We know all because God knows all, but nobody understands us because who can understand the heart of Jesus Christ? We will be in this earth but not of this earth. We don’t judge by what we see or hear but by what God sees and hears.

We the blind were supposed to see and the devils were supposed to be blinded, because now the blind is not leading the blind. We are not leaders; rather, the God who sees all and knows all is leading us from heaven through the Lord Jesus Christ. This is what God saw for us — a wind that nobody understands, because who can understand the mind of God who leads us? We are not supposed to win or conquer but to be above winners and conquerors.

 

We are not in the rat race of life; we are the hand of salvation working to save everyone from this rat race of life. The rat who wins the race may win cheese, but we own the storehouse of all cheese as we belong to the victorious Lord in heaven. So our race is not a race for cheese but for salvation of souls, as we know the Lord cares about our daily bread, for everything that belongs to God is ours.

 

When we die on the cross and are washed away by the water baptism, we are dead and we have neither wish nor desire of our own, as the dead have no wish of their own. But when we rise from the dead, being born again in Spirit, we live for the one who owns our second birth — the Lord Jesus Christ. Now we are the body of Christ and the Lord Jesus is the head. His wish is our wish, and we live for His wish — the salvation of all. His wish is the gospel that should be preached not only by our mouth and believed in our heart, but reflected in our life, as we love God with everything we are, love brothers and sisters in faith as ourselves, love our neighbors, and reach as far as loving our enemies. Light will be in our heart and mouth, but most importantly in our life, shining the light of heaven and honoring the good name of the Lord.

 

All about us — our education, our wisdom, our technology, our wealth, our power, our culture, and anything “good” in us — is nothing but filthy garment. Worthless garment of abomination. We are not children of light and we did not grow in the light of God like the angels of God, so our culture is a culture of abomination made in the image of the thorns and thistles of this earth. As the good book — the Bible — said it rightly: all humanity is sinful and evil. And when Jesus died on the cross, we were judged sinful and worthy of death on the cross and worthy of eternal hellfire. We and our culture are Frankenstein’s monster made by the devil, and Jesus came to kill that and give us new life in His image. When Jesus said, “I defeated the world,” He defeated our culture, our ways, and our life which are made in the image of the devil, so as to give us the image of God — that is Jesus.

 

The Jewish people who reject the Bible to follow their abomination, and the “Christian” cultures who fail to live by the standard of Jesus, are filthy garments of Adam’s damnation, and they are nothing but thorn and thistle of this fallen world. The right Christian is the Lord Jesus Christ, but we want the Lord to be made in our image rather than making ourselves in the image of God. When God said, “This is my beloved Son; listen to Him,” we add, “Here is our beloved culture of abomination,” and we want to remake the world in our image — the image of the beast, the devil. When God says Jesus, we say our abomination, and we shout louder to silence God. Oh man/woman, listen, it has never been wise to have a strategy against Jesus.

 

Rather than growing from glory to glory into the image of Jesus, we want to take the Lord Jesus from damnation to damnation so as to make Him in our image. Now Jesus is African witch, now Jesus is progressive abomination made in the image of lost souls, now Jesus is a dead statue pointing toward Western Civilization as heavenly perfection, now Jesus is a means for health and wealth, now Jesus is a genie in the bottle following our word of faith, now Jesus is a means to dominate the world. Now Jesus looks like our ugly personality. Rather than rising with the Lord as He is uplifted, we want to make Jesus in our worthless image of abomination — in the image of the devil.

 

If we can see ourselves, we will never love ourselves. If we understand our behavior, our choices, our culture, our education, our history, our civilization, and so on, we will hate ourselves. We are children of this fallen world and we know the light, the perfection, and the holy God that Jesus is. When I see Jesus, what I hate is me. I see I am worthless, directionless, hopeless, and basically an ignorant person. My wish is to fade away and be remade in the image of the Lord. I have nothing to justify about myself but to be justified by the Just One — the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet the world of “Christianity” is making God in its own fallen image.

 

When we say Jesus is the way, they shout louder saying Western Civilization is the way. When we say Jesus is the truth and the only way to salvation, they shout Judeo-Christian culture is the way. When we say give us the pure water of heaven that the Lord Jesus is, they say the dirty water of Israel and Western Civilization is the way. When we say we should grow into the image of the Lord, others shout outside of their closet that Jesus is learning from human foolishness in a progressive manner (I think they forget it is the devil learning from foolish humanity, not Jesus). When we say we should focus on the salvation of all and the great commission, they cry day and night about health and wealth to serve their needs rather than to build the house of the Lord.

 

When we say grow to Jesus and pull others with you, they sit in their chair of abomination and dress their filthy garment, and they focus on pointing fingers at sinners out there. Rather than cleaning their own eye first, their focus is on pointing at the dirt out there. They unite to rightly reject sin but they never grow into the image of the Lord. They are called to look like Jesus — who died for our sin, who ascended to heaven, and who is pulling everyone up. So we are expected to grow toward Jesus and pull people with us. But we sit in our temple with the appearance of holiness but a sinful nature, and we spend all our life pointing fingers rather than saving souls.

 

We point at those sinners out there and we are happy that we pray, we pay our share of income, we preach the gospel, and we save souls — and then after that we have all the time to make Jesus in our image, but we never have time to sit at the feet of Jesus and to wash His feet as the worthless sinners we are and who are saved by His grace. We are not busy growing toward Jesus, but busy growing our sinful nature toward the world. In what right mind can a man sell himself to the world when Jesus is in the store? Only the swindlers and criminals that we are do it. This is why our faith is becoming a faith of abomination — we are busy decorating our filthy garment rather than washing it away and buying white cloth from the Lord.

 

That is why our gospel is not wealth or health. Our gospel is not prosperity and material gain. Our gospel is not Western Civilization. Our gospel is not about national dignity or economic development. Our gospel is not about free market, capitalism, socialism, or communism. Our gospel is neither ethnic, national, nor global agenda. Our gospel is about the work of the cross, and that is for the salvation of all. Dear, we are proud of this gospel because we are not in the rat race of life but selling life to the world so they can escape the rat race of life.

 

Our shoe is not Western government, and we are not preaching a gospel supported by Western military or security agencies, but our shoe is the gospel of peace. We are not claiming one ethnic group or region is superior and others inferior; we are proclaiming there is one way for salvation and that is through Jesus Christ. We are not marketing our dirt and our abomination of the devil, but the light from light — the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

That is why everything about us is held tight by the belt of truth, and that is why propaganda, partial truth, and lie are not used even to protect friends or attack enemies. Besides, the truth of all truth — the Lord Jesus Christ — is the one we preach, not our lie of perfection like our culture of abomination (whether Western Civilization or progressive culture or ethnic culture or national culture). We know without truth, our gospel will not hold tight. Truth is very important because without it all falls apart. The truth of all truths is Jesus, and without Jesus nothing stands firm. Jesus is the one who holds it all tight.

Even though we try hard to live as light and we fail often, even though we try to dress holiness and try to live holy life (despite our endless failures), and even though we often fall from grace, observing how many arrows of the devil destroy our vital organs, we know our holiness is nothing but filthy garment — yet we try hard. We know the Lord will heal us in this direction soon, as He did in other parts of our life.

 

We keep our shield strong, and we know our faith will protect us, and the assurance of our salvation keeps us safe against the accusations of the devil. As we fight by the word of God to destroy all disobedience against God and knock down all the devil’s strongholds — like prosperity gospel, ecumenism, word of faith, dominion theology, all dead religions, earthly ways, the movements of the antichrist (new age and new thought), and all rebellions against the kingdom of God — our final goal is not to condemn anyone but the devil, and to save all for the Lord. That is why we have no human enemy but the devil. Our fight is not with flesh and blood but with the kingdom of the devil.

 

We know every road does not lead to heaven. Western Civilization, Eastern Civilization, Arabic Civilization, or whatever civilization there is does not lead to heaven. I am sure the culture of the Jewish people does not lead to heaven. I am sure Christian culture does not lead to heaven. Yet Jesus is the only road to salvation. Everything which is from Jesus is good; otherwise all is evil.

 

We are sheep and as sheep we have a slogan of two legs and four legs. We say Jesus is good and everything else is evil. I know the honestly confused and some paid-off pigs are trying to rewrite our constitution so it should say “Western Civilization is good”, “progressive sin is good”, “ecumenism is good”, “ethnic religion is good”, “health and wealth is good”, “dominance of the world is good”, “Judeo-Christian culture is good”, and so on — but I tell you, God is good and the image of God is Jesus, so Jesus is good. By no means will I declare sin is good when holiness is in our store to be sold to the world.

 

If Muslims, Jewish people, Eastern people, Western people, and African people accept Jesus as Lord and deny themselves so as to be killed on the cross — to hang on the cross for the world and to hang the world on the cross — and if they deny their culture, their ideology, their knowledge, and whatever they have, they will be born again in the image of Jesus. As they obey God to grow toward Jesus, the Holy Spirit will give life to their dead body to remake them in the image of God.

 

Now Jesus will be Arabic Jesus, Asian Jesus, African Jesus, Western Jesus, Latino Jesus, women Jesus, men Jesus,  poor Jesus, rich Jesus — and what is common is that Jesus is coming in different flavor. They will not be remade in the image of some white fool or black fool or Asian fool, but in the image of Jesus, and Jesus will be expressed in what they are. Their dead self will be remade in the image of Jesus. This is what we sell — Jesus, not the sin of our fathers.