JESUS CHRIST OPENED HEAVEN TO ALL NATIONS AND PEOPLE
Sakkie Parsons
Someone shared with me a video she watched where a man twisted Jesus' Gospel in such a way that one could only call what he preached; an evil gospel.
It was a gospel where hatred against all people who were not the same colour as he was the main theme and that people who did not have the same colour as he, could not go to Heaven.
Here is my answer to her:
Here are some passages from the Word of many that I could share with you about who will be in Heaven and for whom we, as part of the second reason why we are on earth, must try to help to go to Heaven:
MAT 28:19-20
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, (as I understand the Word, no nation is excluded to become a disciple of Jesus) baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them(that is all nations) to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, (all that walk in His way) to the end of the age."
Jesus opened Heaven to our FATHER for every nation, people and language:
REV 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
COL 3:9-11
9 Do not lie to one another, (be honest and sincere in your Christian life) seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (and with this new insight we see all people like ourselves as human beings)
11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Satan knows that a Christian who has hatred in his or her heart, no matter how you look at it, does not have a really good relationship with Jesus as He want it to be and now satan use people like some political parties and people in South Africa and across the world with evil in their hearts, to pollute Christians’ relationship with Jesus in such a way that many Christians do not even realize that there is a wall going up between them and Jesus.
It is the last days and the attacks are getting more and more skilful and subtle on us who are truly followers of Christ, but I must remember and make sure I get to that place:
MAT 22:36-40
36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"
37 And he said to him, "You shall (this is not an option but a command if you are a true follower of Jesus) love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
38 This is the great and first commandment.
39 And a second is like it: (in other words as far as God is concerned, these two commandments are equal with the same supremacy and importance) You shall (it is not an option, it is a command) love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
These days when I talk to people about this hatred that satan flare up in Christians' hearts and spurs them to cherish the flames of hatred in spreading all sorts of things to inflate these flames – that Jesus would not have sent around – I feel to call out to them:
GAL 4:16 Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Because surely the people do not send all the old photos, videos and messages from the past, together with the new horror photos over the internet to each other with the message with which Jesus underlined His love message from the cross.
Of what message do I speak, which Jesus used from the cross to underline His loving gospel?
LUK 23:34 And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide his garments
One of the most important consequences of hatred in one's heart that you then also proclaim and live out that satan makes especially religious people forget are: (I say; religious people, because religious people must have read it countless times)
GAL 6:7-10
7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, (especially, so I believe, in mocking His Gospel-of-Love for which He also allowed His Son to hang on the cross) for whatever one sows,(the hatred and despise that some people proclaim) that will he also reap.
8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
I must also remember that I am always going to reap much more than I have sown.
You sow one grain. Maybe just a little hate, it's now if hate can ever be just a little, which it never is – but you harvest a whole straw full of grains – it's an abundance of hate and what goes with it.
The closer we get to the coming of Jesus, the harder it becomes for most of us Christians; "To walk the walk of the talk that we talk."
I ask myself the question:
How much hatred do you have in your heart for people that are not the same nation and language that you are, if you read God's Word which I wrote above and you still declare that people, who are not the same colour than you, are not going to Heaven!
As for Jesus' love gospel, there is only one race; the human race – mankind – which includes all nations and peoples:
JOHN 3:16-17
16 "For God so loved the world,(this as I understand the Word, includes all people) that he gave his only Son, that whoever (this as I understand the Word includes all people, regardless of your colour) believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.
I then conclude with this true knowledge that you and I can rejoice in:
God created you the colour you are, it was the colour in which you are beautiful to Him and in which He wanted you and this applies to every person you meet and any person who look down on the colour you or any other person is, to put it this way, look down on God's handiwork and colour in which He created you.
Can you, along with the hatred, see the arrogance that satan uses to build a barrier between people and Jesus and His loving gospel?
GEN 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Jesus Christ came then, after mankind had fallen into sin and all were lost. Through His death on the cross, Heaven opened to all nations and peoples – To every nation and people who accept Him as their Lord and Saviour.
So, as you and I preach the gospel of love of Jesus Christ to all people and nations:
"Let us walk the walk, of the talk that we talk."
Greetings,
Sakkie