Eternity Is Reality

Acts 1:1-8. (a dead man eating with friends) One of IHOP’s main themes is the end of the age. Their view is Post Tribulation, Pre Millenialism. The end times seems very unrealistic, however think about the Resurection of Christ, that God put on flesh and became a man to save humanity, that Jesus was born of a virgin, or that He can raise a dead person by speaking a word. Imagine a dead man walking around and eating with men (Acts 1) It has become trite and common to just take for granted and not to think as I muttered the foundational doctrines of Christianity. However upon meditating on the fact that Jesus really died and rose again. I have to ask myself do I REALLY BELIEVE it?!?! These thoughts are very offensive to the logical mind. The message of the Cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing. This belief is a gift from the Father. It can only be revealed by the Father to our spirit.

I am really asking the Lord to confirm what we are hearing by an encounter with Jesus or an angelic visitation. He is in the business of these things according to the Bible. He is more real than the breath I breathe. So He hears the desire of my heart. Lord I want to experience You. Not just hear and read stories ABOUT You. I want to go deeper!

Romans 11. Israel is still the apple of God’s eye. v.20 We must not be prideful, because we have faith. Help me to have real faith. Don’t let me deceive myself, and have a name that I’m alive, but be dead on the inside. God broke off the branches of Israel in the time of the Pharisees. One of the most religious periods in Israel. God wants things done His way. Not just 90%, but 100% obedience.

Are we in the church trapped in a state of imaginary grace? Wth the Reformation did we swing to far toward grace? Are we bound to a religion that requires nothing of us, that allows us to come to the Father of Glory like a heavenly santa claus?