Breaking All Chains
Setting The Captives
Free
Are You Naked ?
In Luke Chapter 18
Christ gives a lecture of what is required,
from everyone, including believers.
Before mentioning that the commandments need to be observed,
Christ gave a parable of two types of people.
This is very pertinent to the condition in the world today.
This is the question:
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?
What is your answer to this question?
I personally know dozens of people,
who would answer, “Yes”, ME.
can not only
differ, but it can be directly opposite our opinion of ourselves.
Luke
18:8 I tell you that he
will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the
earth?
The Pharisee, was self righteous and despised
others.
Luke 18:9 ¶ And he spake this parable unto certain
which trusted in themselves
that
they were righteous, and despised others:
Luke 18:10 Two men
went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee,
and the other a publican.
Sometimes
people go further and they tell me that they have
not
only prayed, but that they have even fasted,
therefore
they know that what they are doing is right.
Many also give their
tithes and offerings,
to whoever they will,
but nothing changes.
It rarely crosses
their minds that they are in rebellion,
and actually
displeasing the Eternal God.
At the bottom of this
lies the reasoning that we are under ‘Grace’,
therefore anything
goes.
This is a blatant
lie, from our adversary.
The Pharisee prayed, fasted and tithed.
Although he mentions ‘God’, we
are told that he prayed to himself.
Luke 18:11 The
Pharisee stood and prayed
thus with himself, God, I thank thee,
that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers,
or even as this publican.
Luke 18:12 I fast
twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
[The problem is that there is no fruit
to show that the praying and fasting
had done the
slightest bit of good.
Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.]
Now the commoner, ‘the publican’, had an entirely different attitude.
The Pharisee was arrogant, which is normal today.
The Publican was humble, which is very rare today.
Luke 18:13 And the publican,
standing afar off, would not lift up so much
as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying,
God be merciful to me a sinner.
The verdict of Christ is clear.
The arrogant Pharisee has to be brought down to the earth, with a mighty
crash.
The humble Publican, was going to be exalted.
Luke 18:14 I tell you,
this man went down to his house justified rather than the other:
for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
humbleth
himself shall be exalted.
The
Pharisee was naked, and the Publican was clothed.
We
can all think that we are immortal, invincible, and all powerful.
We
can pompously and arrogantly strut about as much as we wish.
We
can rebel, lie, steal and kill as much as we desire.
The question is how will you
appear?
Those are the only two choices available.
I repeat the option not to appear, does not exist.
I can tell you that billions of people are going to appear
absolutely naked, as the day they were born.
This includes many who claim to be ‘Christians’.
When
you die, whether your are a Pope, a President, a Peasant,
a
Pauper, a Believer or an non-Believer, it will not matter in the slightest.
You
can be encased in a gold coffin, a body bag, or a mass grave.
You
can be dressed in your very best clothes,
your
body and your clothes stay in the grave.
It
is your human ‘spirit’, that appears before the Eternal God.
Some
think this is the Final judgment.
It
is not.
It
says you die and right after that you are judged.
This
judgment is the decision of where your spirit is going
to
wait until it is resurrected to glory or damnation.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment:
The
choice is Abraham’s bosom for the righteous or the place of
torment
for the wicked, i.e. ‘hell’.
Luke
16:22 And it
came to pass, that the beggar died,
and
was carried by the angels into Abraham‘s bosom:
the
rich man also died, and was buried;
Luke
16:23 And in
hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,
and
seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
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Many
say that the book of Revelation, in spite of its name, is symbolic.
There
are some symbols, however,
there
is nothing symbolic about the following verses.
First:
The
entire New Testament is primarily written to the true Church of Jesus Christ,
as
is the entire book of Revelation.
Secondly:
Much
of Christ’s ministry was addressed to those who considered
themselves
servants of God.
It
was these same servants, who orchestrated His torture and cruel murder.
Third:
Christ
clearly tells the seven churches in Revelation chapters 2
and 3,
that
He knows their works, and we can see that He knows the condition
of
the hearts of the members.
It
is not simply a matter of what pours forth from their mouths.
Fourth:
Christ
tells us that these people whom He is addressing are neither
hot
nor cold. In case we miss the point, He repeats it and tells us
that
they are lukewarm.
Revelation
3:15 I know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot:
I
would thou wert cold or hot.
Fifth:
Christ
says that He will vomit them out of His mouth,
because
they are offensive to Him.
Revelation
3:16 So then because thou
art lukewarm,
and
neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Sixth:
Christ
exposes what these people think about themselves.
They
consider themselves,
Rich,
Increased
with goods,
Having
need of nothing.
Revelation
3:17 Because thou
sayest, I am rich,
and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing;
Seventh:
Christ
exposes their true condition,
of
which they did not have the slightest clue.
So
many people want to teach me what to do,
when
their lives are in total confusion.
Some
even give me advice on how I should run the website.
Others
state that the website is ‘myopic’.
Some
say I should stand on a street corner giving out ‘tracts’.
The
fact that countless hundreds of thousands,
across
the entire world, access my material, seems to have
bypassed
their attention.
They
would be far better sorting out the mess in their own lives.
Revelation
3:17
and
knowest not that thou art
wretched,
and
miserable,
and
poor,
and
blind,
and
naked:
According
to this verse unless you have a ‘white garment’,
you
will be stark naked.
It
is clear that the riches of these people, mentioned above,
is
utterly valueless, and counts for nothing.
Christ
regards them as being naked.
He
then advises them to buy gold from Him, and this gold,
will
result in the shame of their nakedness being covered.
In
order to do as we are instructed, we must first of all carry
out
the instructions at the end of the verse.
It
tells us that the bottom line is blindness.
Unless
the blindness is removed, it is quite impossible to see
the
true condition, regardless of how much praying, fasting,
and
tithing is done.
Prayers
can be absolutely in vain.
There
are many verses, which explain this.
Proverbs
1:28 Then shall they call
upon me, but I will not answer;
they
shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Right
now I have people, who are literally dying,
and
they refuse to do basic simple things, for their own good,
which
even a non-Christian would advise.
Such
is the rebellion in the human heart,
which
is deceitful above all things.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Blindness
requires a miracle of the Eternal God for it to be healed.
Neither
study nor prayer meetings nor anything else will do this.
That
is what this verse is saying.
As
with most things, the very first thing that needs to be done,
is
to humble ourselves, and admit that there is a problem.
Many
do not even get past this first hurdle,
but
they have to do so in order to buy the white raiment,
which
is required.
Revelation
3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment,
that
thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakedness
do
not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve,
that thou
mayest see.
So what is
this white raiment?
It is the
righteousness of the saints.
This is not
self-righteousness, which I encounter every day,
but the
righteousness of Christ.
The
righteousness of Christ will only reside in a repentant,
and
obedient believer,
as the
righteousness of Christ, is Christ Himself.
Revelation
19:8 And to her was granted that she
should be arrayed
in fine linen, clean and white:
for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
We can say
all the words that we desire,
and do
whatsoever we like.
Note that
this gold is tried in the fire.
There is a
cost, which includes, pain, suffering, and fiery experiences.
We are
told to buy of Christ, true riches and righteousness from Him,
otherwise,
we are not going to make it into
His
Kingdom, whatever we might think.
Revelation
19:8 And to her was granted that she
should be arrayed
in fine linen, clean and white:
for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Long
ago I stated in a document that most of us are walking around
like
the Emperor in the story of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.
Those
who were near to the Emperor, and whom he trusted,
deceived
him into believing that He was wearing
the
most beautiful garments, when He was stark naked.
It
took a little child to blurt out the truth.
Today we
are in a world where people trust people,
whom they
do not even know, and whom they have never met.
They do
not know if those they are trusting are
even real
people or not.
It is
referred to as a virtual, computer internet, world.
Many
people live in a virtual world, even getting married.
One couple
starved their real child whilst they fed their virtual children.
That gives
some idea of how messed up we are in reality.
No one is
going to sneak into the Wedding Feast,
without a
garment of righteousness.
It will
never happen.
This is
the position today.
The
Wedding Feast is just about ready,
but will
you be there?
Matthew
22:8 Then saith he to his servants,
The
wedding is ready,
but they
which were bidden were not worthy.
Matthew
22:9 Go ye therefore into the
highways,
and as many
as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Matthew
22:10 So those servants went out into
the highways,
and gathered together all as many as they
found,
both bad
and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
The
king came to see the guests, in all their finery.
I
do not believe that the guests saw anything wrong with the man,
whom
the king approached, he most likely looked the same
as
everyone else, but this was no ordinary king.
This
was Christ the king, and He could see past the fabric garments,
and
He did not see a garment of righteousness,
therefore
the man was thrown out.
Matthew
22:11 And when the king
came in to see the guests,
he saw
there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Matthew
22:12 And he saith unto
him, Friend,
how
camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?
And he was
speechless.
Matthew
22:13 Then said the king to the
servants,
Bind him
hand and foot, and take him away,
and cast
him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
As I asked
are you naked?
Will you
be thrown out of the Wedding Feast ?
What are you going to do about it before it is too late?
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