Through Who’s Eyes?
5-31-2009
When that moment happens where you come over a rise in the road and find you’re going to be stopped in a random safety check by police, what are three things that you need to have? _______, ________, and _________. If you are driving without any one of these things you will be ticketed.
When that moment comes where you enter the judgment, either by death or the end of days, what do you need to have so that you escape the flames? If this lesson was cut short by either of those two events would you come through to the other side into life eternal? Do you possess what those who do the sorting are looking for that would qualify you for entrance into The Kingdom of Heaven?
Jesus explains that the events of the judgment are like a shepherd who separates the sheep from the goats. (Mat.25:31ff) This I have come to trust is true, the separating of the peoples is a job delegated to the angels. (Mat.13:24-30, 36-43 (39)) So this is my question to you; what do the angels look for with their angelic vision? What is it about the person that they have the ability to see or detect that qualifies or disqualifies an individual for entrance into the Kingdom where Jesus is King?
The really important stuff that matter the most in the end is having what God says is important to have. To avoid a ticket we understand it is necessary to be in compliance with what the law says we must have, this is also true for entrance into heaven. To enter heaven a person must have been compliant with God’s prescribed rules for entrance while they are still on this side of death.
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What ever the Holy Angels look for, it is that thing which a person needs to be in possession of if they hope to gain entrance into Heaven. The conclusion of scripture is that when a person is compliant to Jesus’ demands they become a recipient of this thing the Angels look for that marks them as “sheep”. (We know that what Jesus spoke is what the Father told Him to speak therefore it is God’s demands. Jn.14:10, 24)
What it comes down to is this very simple thing, ownership. Jesus is the Shepherd and he claims only His sheep that He has purchased with His Blood. (Rev.5:9) What the Angels are in fact looking for is the mark of ownership. The question then becomes: what is the mark of ownership? A more personal question would then be; do you bear the mark of the master? (By the way, what is the mark of the Master, the mark of ownership?)
Paul speaks plainly that this “mark” is the Spirit that a person receives when they are purchased. (Eph.1:13-14) Evidence from Scripture confirms that the Spirit is evidence of ownership. (Rom.8:9-11) So how does a person become purchased and in being purchased receive the seal of ownership? Peter was answering this question when he stood up and preached the 1st recorded sermon of Christianities beginning, that moment when Jesus began the building of His Church. (Acts 2:38-39)
Do you bear the mark of ownership? If not, why not?