My dog did NOT eat my homework, I JUST DIDN'T DO IT!

I am constantly aware that there is much that I want to blog about. I approach my laptop, attempt to write, and then get overwhelmed. What's a little frustrating is that, as I sit in my contemplation of so much information, I realize that tomorrow the information I just attained today will be added onto. So, what do I write about? I have spent a lot of my writing on my personal journey, with very few of the things I am learning outside of myself. But then again, I'm not sure that I can really separate them. Because I have a personal testimony in the Lord, I am a part of Him, and what He is doing.


EGS tonight was amazing. Of course it was. It was awesome. We were taught on Revelation 17, Satan's strategy to deceive the church. And just as there are forerunners for the second coming of Jesus, there are already forerunners for those who will highly exult Satan's worship movement. Basically, Satan's plan to deceive the church is to raise up his own 'justice movement.' But like Mike said in his sermon tonight, "The devil feeds the poor, because it's good for business." There will be the anti-Christ, and then the harlot Babylon. Babylon being an actual one world religion, and probably an actual place, as well. The anti-Christ will fund this one world religion (which will actually be the wealthiest religion of all time, it will have the 'appearance of dignity' and serves horrible things to the people though it will look like a good thing she is doing-Rev. 17:1-4), he will support her...for a while. He is actually using her for his own purposes. The anti-Christ turns on her and then forces the people that worship this religion, to worship himself, claiming that he is God. Those in tune with the heart of God will be prophesying about this, standing up for Truth that Jesus is the only way, and she will persecute them, and many saints will be killed. The interesting thing about this, is that when it finally happens, those who denied the prophecies now have the opportunity to turn their hearts back to God upon seeing that the prophecies were correct.


We can actually see in our culture this end-time 'justice-movement,' with people crying out for tolerance. This tolerance gospel scares me, because tolerance is only trying to be God to justify ourselves. It is so scary because it will get to the point where nothing is wrong, there will be no absolute truth. Mike said this, "This time will require great endurance to stand for Truth, because everything will be 'acceptable,' 'all paths lead to God.' There will be no absolute truth to keep them from worshipping Satan as an angel of light." We will be protected from this only by staying in the Word, and having no compromise, by not creating our own agenda's and not watering down the fact that Jesus is the only way. The Jesus of the Bible. "The end-time battle is the battle for the truth of who Jesus is. He is FULLY God."


I love justice. I am drawn to justice, but justice is what God says it is. Because He is the Creator of what is good, righteous, and just. Like everyone, I have made my own assumptions about what is just, according to my own circumstances. Then I started having encounters with the heart of God. I justified sin because my heart didn't want to acknowledge my state of brokenness, and I didn't want to be wrong. Because I didn't want to feel guilty. I believe that we justify so many things to separate ourselves from guilt. But Jesus died for the guilt. Here is where we come into the face of grace again. Costly grace (Bonhoeffer) is costly because we have to get up and be seen, but it's grace because it's Jesus. We have to acknowledge we are wrong, but HE IS SO GOOD. He doesn't justify our sin, making us His equal in perfection. He forgives our sin, making us His equal in perfection. He shows us how to let go: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing." He says, forgive others and yourself, only then can you receive grace.


From one who used to justify all my sin...it feels SO GOOD, SO FREEING, to acknowledge my sin, not fight to make excuses for myself, and to live in forgiveness!! How can you live free if you are always having to think of excuses????? You are NOT FREE, you are in bondage to thoughts of false justification to protect your broken heart. That hurts my brain just thinking about it. If that's the case, we might as well just say, "my dog ate my homework" for every sin we commit. Because it's SO OBVIOUS that it's an excuse.

I don't care what you've done, or how you got to the darkest places in your life, I forgive you. I extend forgiveness to you, and invite you to forgive those who caused you to fear and shut your heart off. Jesus is good. He isn't mad or disappointed, the only thing He gets angry about is when His temple is desecrated in ANY way. And YOU are His temple. He just says "Come, and we'll talk about it over a cup of coffee, or grape juice..."

I feel like this is a blog-sermon, and here is the altar call. Really, unforgiveness eats away at you if not confessed. Feel free to email me if you want to just get something in the open to begin the process of forgiveness. Maybe I can help, or lead you to someone who can help.