Monday, June 1, 2015

Naked and Afraid (Continued-Ending)

Many of you have walked Naked and Afraid, and everyone trekked toward the extraction point. Everyone are pilgrims in this jungle and sometime, maybe even a long time, the Director will make a decision. Your journey is over. Your PSR has either grown through weathering the storms or it has decreased. The Director will never give you anything that isn't manageable and he even stands by to bring in help when you're at the lowest points. All the person has to do is ask! We are to pray to God that his will to be done.

There may be a problem. The Director, symbolic of God, may have a different "will" than what you think will benefit. Those "naked and afraid" men and women have a goal. They want to all go home and things be good again. The Director (God) of the real life program may have other ideas. He telepathically asks many questions to which he already knows the answer. He's got that camera on all your life, never losing it's power and never running out of memory. He will judge where you go after extraction based on your spiritual performance in life! It's whether you love your co-partner and whether you appreciate your Sponsor! God sponsors all and he deserves credit. Crediting God for directing our lives is how we love him.

Two people; one man, one woman finally get to the extraction point. There they are met by a black-clothed person with a hood and a sickle. He takes each by the hand. Before some go with him, they suffer much. Others are gently led out by a gentle hand. As they're led to extinction, have they run the good race? Have they engaged the jungle as they should? Have they loved each other and helped each other as they spend their time together? All that is on God's camera!
Mark 4:22 "For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
It's easy to do good things when the camera is on, but how do we behave when it's off? On the show, it does go off and maybe some of the guests cuddle a little too long or a little too lovingly. The set director may exercise judgment and cut the filming, but with God, the camera is never off! "Nothing is hid" from the Director of the universe. What those who are  naked do in private are exposed. Nothing is kept secret!

Husbands and wives at home may not see distasteful things done off camera or blurred out, but God does. It's all the things we do in life, in full view and hidden, that will be seen when the Director decides where are home shall be after extraction!

What is it that we are to do, even when we think the camera is off?
Matthew 7:19 "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
How's that PSR after all those days in the jungle or desert?  How great is your faith? With God, because of his mercy, those with any faith at all, having even a low PSR, will have the hope of salvation. God will take, because he has grace, even those who believe and have a little faith, to a room in his mansion in paradise! However, there will be those whose PSR is lacking or non-existent, who have faith, but it's misplaced. They try too hard to do everything themselves! The Director watches those because success in survival is using the aid of your partner. In this life our partner is God and he loves those who let him lead them by the hand. They bury their pride and allow that just maybe, God knows how to aid us in survival!

Those who have an honest PSR are immediately whisked away.  Jesus said to the thief on the cross next to him as he died:
Luke 23:43 "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."
There is rapid transit from the extraction point to that eternal home! What awaits there for those whose PSR is sufficient?
John 14:2  "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."
Those who persevere under those fiery darts that the jungle and desert shoot, are rewarded. Now, on the program it's merely self-satisfaction, but in life, the reward after death is eternal life in that heavenly mansion! That makes the effort all worth the while, but meek people must not be proud! The duration is not self-sufficient, but the person must lean on their partner who is God! Those who leaned on God are clothed with armor and certainly not afraid! There will be no repeats for them! They're safely at home now!

But how about those who were extracted and didn't persevere? What is their future? It's bleak! Those who didn't allow their partner into their life to help protect them from the evil abounding in their jungle, contracted a virus. It was terminal! Not only in this life, but it causes a second death!

It would appear that after extraction those with no or false PSR are taken to a preliminary place in Hades where they will get a taste of what is ahead for them. After a time, God will have enough of all this "naked living", so to speak, (living in the flesh) and call everyone to his presence! We all will be judged, but those who have been living in Paradise, living like Adam and Eve were created to live, stand before God! He says to them:
Matthew 25:23  "His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."
This person whose PSR was real, symbolic of his faith, will be clothed in royal white and pure garments, what was his shame will be covered by the blood. The flesh is no longer an issue because in heaven all things are pure.  God reviews all the film, looks in the Book Of Life, and commends the person! His name is not blotted out of The Book and here's what it says:
Revelation 3:5 "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Jesus, who judges the small and the great, puts in a good word in with God for you! God looks at the video (or book) and finds nothing:
Isaiah 43:25 "I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. "
Although you really messed up, but because your sins were covered by faith (a real PSR) your slate is wiped clean. God, with his power, exposed all the film shot by the crew with his Light. You never killed, you never fornicated, stole food nor anything, as far as God remembers! Rather than standing there on Holy Ground Naked and Afraid, you stand there in raiment of white and assured of your salvation! You are not afraid!

On the other hand, those with no or feigned PSR , only God knows, stand there just as they did in the Garden. Jesus is again in paradise and it's his Voice you hear! Plead your case Adam. Plead your case Eve! Both of you stand in front of the Merciful One and plead for mercy, just as Adam and Eve begged! The Voice sees you trembling and afraid! "Why did you sin?" he asks. We men say the same thing that Adam said way back then "It's the woman's fault, Lord. She beguiled me!"

"Then woman, what's your excuse?" God asks. She said "The serpent deceived me!" Yes, the serpent deceived her regularly and continually. Woman is and has been man's downfall. Because of our desire for the woman, the man capitulates. In Scripture Eve sinned first, but Adam sinned too! The woman should be modest in all aspects and the man should not burn with desire to please her!

As Man and Woman, they stand before God, this time not together, but alone, God recounts all the sins. As he speaks they shake in fear, standing there "naked, alone and afraid"!
Revelation 20:12 "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Man and woman whose faith was lacking and lived for the flesh; the same flesh Adam and Eve tried to cover with fig leaves, yet shuddered in fear, stood there in the presence of the Lord and were "naked and afraid"!  As God reviewed the texts written in the other book where their entire stay, from insertion to extraction, is recorded, he found it full of sin and with works as filthy as rags! "What shall I do with you?" God asks. "Please, God have mercy in us poor sinners! We didn't know what we were doing?"

This time mercy is not available. Grace is for those that live in Christ. Justice must be done or God is a liar. "I don't see your names in The Book Of Life! I see the other book full of sins and no worthy works. Your PSR (faith) was feigned!  You get no reward! You caught a terminal virus transmitted by the Prince of the Air, and because you were extracted still  having that virus, you are to die again. Angels, cast him (or her) into "the lake of fire"!

The fear of the second death is why people living are afraid of death. Most of mankind have that virus. The only cure for it is accepting the blood sacrifice and death to atone for our own sins! The reason Man and Woman were naked and scared at the "Great White Throne Judgment" is because they were as Adam and Eve again, but they were without excuse. The Law has been written and that Law is to love God and all others! In paradise God showed mercy on Adam and Eve, but at the end-of-time judgment, there will be no mercy, only justice with no reward in Paradise!

Choose now how you survive this life! Is it Naked and Afraid, or clothed in the full armor of God and assured of the hope of salvation?
1 Thessalonians 5:8  "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation."
Why stand there "naked and afraid" exposed to the fiery darts in the jungle in which you've been inserted?  Be wise, be brave! Put on that full armor to protect yourself from those darts. Be strong, have faith! Keep that PSR high! If you persevere in that jungle with the Comforter alongside, then at your extraction point you will be rewarded!






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