Goodmorning Earth

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? Isaiah 40.21

The gospel isn't a New Testament revelation. It's been told to real men, real Jewish men and they believed it. So much so did they believe that it was accounted to them as righteousness.

But what is real belief?

Is it spouting of facts and exclaiming ideas? When does the idea actually become the reason all of life flows from? Rather than letting selfish and untrue emotions grip the human psyche perhaps truth of salvation should.

Not just the Cross, but Jesus' perfect life. Not just the Cross, but Jesus' resurrection. Not just the Cross, but Jesus' ascension. Not just the Cross, but Jesus' second coming.

There's more to salvation and the cleansing of sins then a 30-something Jewish man dying 2,000 years ago. It is the fact that He is fully God and fully man, all at the same time. It's not a Jackal and Hyde complex it is truly the fact that His obedience to the Father is His willful choice.

Jesus lived a sinless, perfect life. He understands my weakness in the fact that He had to search through the fog of humanity's deprivation to hear and communicate with the Father.

He rose again! Praise the Lord! If He hadn't rose, then Jesus is a failed Messiah. Yet He came up out of the grave with all power. Jesus walked the earth, ate fish and bread by the sea, He was alive after crucifixion. This is glorious!

Even more so, the God man ascended into heaven! At the right hand of the Father He sits making intercession for humanity, waiting until the day when sanctification is complete and He can rid the earth of wickedness, as He promised.

The day when the heavens open and Jesus' ascends.

But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars of heaven will fall, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then He will send His angels, and gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven. Mark 13:4-27

I will see Jesus, whether I'm on the earth or in the farthest part of heaven, to come and purge the earth of sin. For why would the gospel message simply be cleansing momentarily without the reality of forever being cleansed?

So this is what I believe, without it I'm lost in sin, truly deserving hell. I have a blessed hope of a beautiful city coming down out of heaven for me where I will no longer encounter pain, sorrow, fear of man, comparison. And neither will you.

My friend, it's going to be more than words can describe. The hinge pin is do you believe? Does your lifestyle and emotions reflect the truth and reality of a real day coming in your future?