The Tent of David

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Episkopos

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Quiet agree but far to many trample grace underfoot as if it was cheap, in that it never accomplished what it had set out to. It has but very few believe it, and so set them selves rules and laws that they must abide in to finish off the works Christ already completed. It is finished. Done all over, payment complete, accomplished. Now believe.


Cheap grace is about treating God's salvation sample as enough without seeking God's face or surrendering their carnal natures over to be crucified. IOW people are in it for the thrills and chills...not to actually follow Christ.

Jesus passed through the loss of all things in order to give Himself as a sacrifice for this world.

Real disciples and followers of Christ do the very same...as living sacrifices themselves...NOT just taking advantage of the sacrifice of another.Cheap grace means we give lip service to God but refuse to BE the living sacrifice of a true follower of Christ.

WE are to be those living sacrifices now...counting all things as loss in this world so that we become truly connected to Jesus by taking up His life.

We are to LAY HOLD on eternal life...not just superficially claim we already have eternal life.

But modern people want their flesh AND the Spirit too. But these are contrary to one another.

So then many will suffer great loss on judgment day because they steal from God ...and to these He will come as a thief....to steal back His glory. And many lie and bear a false witness of Christ and His ways. Jesus will deny that these are His.

Unless we are willing to suffer the same kind of loss as Jesus...we have no part with Him.
 
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mjrhealth

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Jesus passed through the loss of all things in order to give Himself as a sacrifice for this world.
Yes He did didnt He so we would not have to. Those who are called will suffer much loss, but that is because the enemy wants to snuff out any who shine, but not all are called, this is no longer about salvation, that has already being determined, this is now all about, "where will you be when He comes", His wedding is being prepared but those who are invited have still refused, soon the workers will go out to invite the dregs so He can fill the empty seats.

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People are mixed. And many who are born again are both mixed in their souls and mixed up in their minds. Now is the time to set things right. The tent of David is the present time of the church whereby we are tried and tested and purified.

But few will undergo the depth of realization on just how off we all are. It's too much to bear for most of us.


As we enter into Christ the unity is there. We are one in Him. But few will ever enter into Him. Most will follow at a distance...and many from a great distance. Unity is about location. Where are we? Are we really walking in holiness? Or are we still mixed? Well it's the mixture that destroys the unity. Dead men don't react in the flesh..and don't think like men. They're dead and Christ is reigning in them. But try finding even one dead man in Christ in the Western churches. So no wonder there is no unity. There is no singleness of walk.There is mixture, And this is deeply so. Who can discern it?

We can't handle to hear how misinformed and unrighteous we really are. And God goes easy on us. But it would be better for us if God was harder on us so that we learn the difficult lessons.

But we need to ask Him to power through our defenses. So we need to embrace humility and the fear of the Lord.

Few however will take the opportunity to become actual vessels of honour...instead remaining satisfied with the status quo that God will judge severely.
As the children of Israel were in the wilderness when they went repeatedly in and out to bring their sacrifices to the priests. Always after bringing their sacrifices they went back out into their world of the flesh. They did not even enter in through the first veil for they could not... but consider Joshua and Caleb. Now then also consider us!

Then there was the second veil through which only the high priest entered once a year on behalf of all.

Here Paul writes about this "to and fro" thing, which applied to those natural children of Jacob, but today when people may enter through both veils [both doors] still they continue to choose and use that regular sacrifice offered by someone who really cannot offer more than a type or shadow. Is there not today something better than a type or shadow found in the rituals and ways of men? Yet so many stick to the types and shadows.

Some men often enter into the door of the church house, but that is like the entrance to the outer court through which the children of Israel passed. It is not one of the Doors of David mentioned by @Episkopos . The two doors are those two veils covering first the Holy Place and secondly the Holiest of Holies. How close do many people today come even to the first door... or do they simply give their offering to the "priest" [pastor, minister] and go on back out the church house door so as to continue along their own struggling sinful journey?

"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" Eph 4:13-14

Another way to help people see the two doors, is considering that Jesus has opened one when he went to the cross, but we must open the other one:

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Rev 3:20-22

The Way is open for us to enter in, but we must also open the way for him to enter into us. When both doors are open then the overcoming work in us moves forward... but while Jesus won't close his door on us, we can and often do close our door on him. Help us dear Lord!
 
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amadeus

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God will not reveal to us more about our unrighteousness than we can bear at a time. There is a mixture of what is right with our own inherent lack of righteousness. And to make matters worse there are many false teachers who will re-enforce that mixture by sowing confusion so that people stop short of a full repentance and surrender to God's ways.

Believers are mixed until purified. But if you tell them they are mixed...they will deny it. Such is the mixture. And the more vehement the denial...the more the mixture.
This mixture is the double minded man James mentions or the old man and the new man about which Apostle Paul writes. The purification is the killing of the old man and the filling up that space within us with the things of the new man. Solomon also wrote of this speaking of the beasts which men are, or which are in men, which need to be killed:

"Wisdom hath builded her house... She hath killed her beasts..." Prov 9:1-2
 
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