June 9, 2016
MY FRIENDS, “BUT” AND “NOT” ARE THE KEY TO OUR PERSONAL NARRATIVES
Narrative is defined as “a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or false.” And since it is about you and I it’s personal meaning each circumstances and situation is unique to our character and our own journey as we travel with the assumption from within that we will enter the promise land one day soon.
And my friends as each narrative is played out, we all seek the same ending, to live happily ever after in a place “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (NKJV) The main characters are, You and I, and the Trinity. Those with a supporting roles will be the holy angels of God Satan and his forces of evil. We begin with four of God’s holy angels standing on the four corners of the earth, “holding the four winds of the earth.
And the merciful eye of Jesus gazed on the remnant that had not given there all to God. “Christ pleads with His Father, “that He had spilled His 
blood for them. Then another angel was commissioned to fly swiftly to the four angels and bid them hold, until the servants of God “were sealed with the seal of the living God in their foreheads.” Rev. 7:2-3 (NKJV) (E. G. White, Early Writings, p. 38) Consistent with this you have the forces of evil causing many of God’s children to fall in combat, right here at the threshold of the promise land. Some narratives end in the arms of Christ, but many die in their own sins.
As the holy angels go back and forth as the process of finishing history in each of our narratives is played out. Our accuser Satan, harasses our protecting angels, tell your Boss He actually died for Betty who abuses her body with unhealthy eating and gossiping John and lying Mary and whore-monger Ben and thieving Kathy. And what will lazy Peter do in heaven surely he will be bored to death without a TV and a XBOX.
Satan knows our over saturation of the things of this world along with our propensity to sin against his enemy and our Lord and Savior. So we must all look into our mind body and soul and see if the accuser of the brethren is correct or have we completely destroyed self and given our all to Christ. Remember my friends, sin “shall not rise up the second time.” Nahum 1:9 (KJV) Calvary, made sure of that.
In addition, “NOT every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; BUT he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Matt 7:21 (KJV) Those two words “NOT” and “BUT” shows “the overwhelming contrast” between those whose narrative is to do the will of God and those who feel because they go to church each week and get entertained by the Holy Spirit that they have a right to “the tree of life.”
Remember we no longer “speak, understand, or think as Children, but we are men and woman who know the difference between right and wrong” So “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. So in the eyes of God we must be “safe to save” so when Satan makes his final accusations against us, God can say “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 1 Cor. 13:11 (KJV paraphrased) 1 John 2:4 (KJV) Rev 7:14 (KJV)
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