Breaking News: Jesus Christ Rejects & Sends A Christian To The Lake Of Fire|Why Was His Name Missing In The Book Of Life?

Christ: “Is David Potea in the Book Of Life?” (Revelations 20:21, 21:27)

Angel (Flips through the pages): No, the name is missing!

Potea (Shocked and confused): Please check again, I must be there. I was born again for many years.

Christ: What does born-again mean? Is it to say a prayer of accepting me as Lord and Saviour then living as you please? You failed to treasure the salvation I bought you at a high price. You treated my blood as common, unworthy and unholy when you made sinning a lifestyle. (1 John 3:3-10)

Potea: But Jesus, I was generally a good person? I had weaknesses. Doesn’t everyone have them?

Christ: When I was on earth, I took on the body of fallen human beings with all its weaknesses and became a servant but never shared in the wickedness of man. I was tempted too and overcame. I died to break the power of sin in your life, gave you my truth and grace to teach you to say no to ungodliness and sent my Spirit to teach, counsel and empower you to live a holy life, but you rejected the truth and took my commands for granted. How else did you expect to be saved and set free? (Titus 2:11-12, John 8:31-32)

Sadly, you fell for Satan’s trickery and trap like Eve did the moment you began questioning my instructions and taking them for suggestions. He said to her, “Did God really say?” He tried to lure me in a similar way, but I stood my ground and countered him with what was written in the scriptures.

Satan is the father of lies and a master of deception. He lied to you about the difference between a weakness and a wickedness.

A weakness is an inability or lack of strength in you that’s not sinful. The Spirit helps you in your weakness and God’s power is made perfect in your weakness. And like Apostle Paul, you can boast about your weaknesses. (Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 11:30, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Hebrews 11:34)

A wickedness is a sinful thought, speech or action. It displeases God and takes you to hell if not repented. Non-believers are filled with every kind of wickedness. But I redeemed believers in me from wickedness and expect their bodies, minds and souls to be instruments of righteousness, not wickedness. (Romans 1:29, Titus 2:14 Romans 6:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)

Potea (With lots of concern on his face): I regarded wickedness as big sins like murder, adultery or prostitution and thought the smaller sins were weaknesses!

Christ: Who taught you about big and small sins? The consequences of sins may be different on earth but here in heaven, no sin is tiny, welcome or tolerated. Every sin is wickedness before a holy and just God.

Do you remember what I taught you? Hatred and anger in the heart is murder. Lusting in the heart is adultery. Worship other gods (anyone or anything that takes the place of God) other than God is prostitution. Do those still sound like big sins?

Tell me, Potea? Is watching porn and masturbating while lusting after women on the screen a weakness or wickedness? Is lying and stealing for the sake of advancing the interests of your company or ministry a weakness or wickedness?  Is hating others and not forgiving those who wrong you or looking down on others because of their tribe, skin colour or political party a weakness or wickedness? Is envy, jealousy and selfish ambition a weakness or wickedness?

Potea: Clearly, they’re all sinful actions. Every time I did them, I repented. Doesn’t that count?

Christ: What is repentance?

Potea: Acknowledging my sin, saying I’m sorry, asking forgiveness and washing by your blood?

Christ: That’s confession.

Potea: I don’t get it. What is repentance then?

Christ: Unless there is a change of mind that translates into a change of your deeds, repentance has not yet taken place. If the remorse you felt was genuine, it would change the way you think about the sinful action and you’d ask for the strength, courage and grace to abandon the sin. (Acts 26:20)

Do you recall that whenever the children of Israel repented, they had to turn from their evil ways? God heard them and rescued them. When their repentance was only lip service and they shed crocodile tears but continued sinning, God unleashed his painful discipline and judgment on them.

Potea: I thought God was understanding and nothing would separate me from your love?

Christ: You were deceived. God can never understand, tolerate or excuse sin. Shouldn’t it have been obvious in the Bible that sin was your greatest enemy because it always banished man from God’s presence? Sadly, you feared Satan more than sin, and because of sin, Satan got you where he wanted you.

I shed my blood, died and resurrected to destroy Satan’s works, cleanse your conscience from sinful deeds and reconcile you with God so you can worship and live for Him forever. (1 John 3:8, Ephesians 1:7, 2:13, Colossians 1:19-20, Hebrews 9:14)

If sin was not a big deal, my Father didn’t have to send me. I didn’t have to suffer ridicule, false accusations and rejection before the people we created.

You’re right to say nothing could separate you from God’s love if you hid, abided and obeyed me but that was not your case because you let sin control you. Why do you think Apostle Paul excluded sin among the things that can separate you from my love? He wrote the words to those who loved God, were justified, and were being transformed to my likeness. (Romans 8:28-39)

Potea (defensive): But isn’t God loving, kind, merciful and gracious? How can He send me to hell?

Christ: He is also holy, just, jealous and a God of wrath. Don’t you remember what happened to Sodom, Gomorrah and the generation of Noah? Were they not people he created?

Didn’t you consider God’s dealing with the Israelites? He chose them as his special possession among the nations and wished them well but they rejected Him and followed their evil desires. And what did God do to them?

Potea: Punished them?

Christ: He rejected them and gave them second chances many times but they refused to change.  Listen to what he said to them,

“You have abandoned me and turned your back on me,” says the Lord. “Therefore, I will raise my fist to destroy you. I am tired of always giving you another chance.” (Jeremiah 15:6. Also Jeremiah 7:29, 2Kings 17:20)

I know you like the verses that said God is with you, he has good plans to prosper you and He’ll never leave you nor forsake you but you ignored the other verses that talked about God and me rejecting you because you disowned, disobeyed and distanced yourself from us.

One prophet in the Bible said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The Lord will stay with you as long as you stay with him! Whenever you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.” (2 Chronicles 15:2)

Why are you surprised?

Potea (scratching his head with the right hand): I am. I never heard of that verse.

Christ: I also told you that if you deny, disown or refuse to acknowledge me before me, I will deny, disown and not acknowledge you before my Father and the angels. (Matthew 10:33)

All we wanted was to reveal ourselves to you more and more like it was meant to be before the fall. That is what I meant when I said, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.” (John 14:23)

Potea: I missed that. But Lord, many Christians lived like me?

Christ: That’s very sad. I expected them to know better. Their punishment is greater. I told you, “And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn’t prepared and doesn’t carry out those instructions, will be severely punished.” (Luke 12:47)

The Spirit through Paul warned you, saying;

“²⁶ Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.

²⁷ There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. ²⁸ For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹ Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.

³⁰ For we know the one who said,

“I will take revenge.
I will pay them back.”

He also said,

“The Lord will judge his own people.”

³¹ It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:26-31)

Potea: Ooh my God! I’m finished. Will you not consider the many good works and my devotion to church since I became born again?

Christ: Stop using God’s name in vain. The only work I demanded from you was to believe in me. (John 6:29)

Potea: But I believed.

Christ: Did you really? When you believed, did it change the way you lived? When I looked at you, I didn’t see your light or saltiness in your family, church, community and company. The only difference between you and the nonbelievers was that you attended, served and acted religiously in church. But those nonbelievers also had clubs, causes and fellowships they devoted their time and money to.

True believing means you understand God’s plan of redemption since the fall of man, his work through the Old Testament and the shadows that pointed to my coming into the world to seek and save the lost.

Did you believe because you understood your sinfulness and rebelliousness or because you wanted protection from Satan, demons and witchcraft, provision for your needs and help to succeed in your life?

Potea: Didn’t you promise those things?

Christ: I longed for you to sit at my feet and learn from me like Mary did when I visited her house. But you focused on seeking pleasure, properties, progress and popularity as the world did. Though according to the world’s standards you did very well, it was detestable before God. (1 Samuel 16:7, Luke 16:15)

You didn’t want me for me. Instead, you wanted my blessings, gifts, breakthroughs, healing, miracles and power. In your smart foolish way, you thought you were using me to your own ends. The love of the Father was not in you. (1 John 2:15-17)

How I wish you pursued me more than things and abided in me daily.

Potea: I thought the 30 minutes I spent in my quiet time daily and the several overnights and fun worship events I attended pleased you.

Christ: How could those few minutes in God’s presence be meaningful when you left me there after the quiet time and I didn’t cross your mind throughout the day?

If your wife spent the day with you at work, would you be silent on her all day long?

I was with you everywhere but you ignored me, didn’t ask for my counsel and even didn’t acknowledge me before your friends. Their opinions, praise and acceptance were more important to you than my presence and praise. You never wanted to stand out for me, suffer for my sake or look like a fool because of me.

Potea: I tried to love people, though. I contributed money for weddings, burials, church-building projects and other events.

Christ: Is that love? I know you were mindful of your family, some relatives, some church friends and workmates. Nonbelievers excel in that too.

But did you love any of the people close to my heart like orphans, widows, refugees, sick, poor, hungry, naked, prisoners? Didn’t you read that what anyone did for them, they did it to me? (Matthew 25:42-46)

Potea: Lord, I had little left to give because of the loans, the needs of my family and the many offerings and seeds I sowed in my church.

Christ: I know you had little left. But did you ask me before you took loans to acquire stuff, I’d have given you in my time? Why did you choose to become a slave to the borrower over freedom in me?

And why did you give to someone else to help the poor on your behalf? That would not be a problem if you had checked whether the money you gave did the work you gave it for. But you trusted blindly and gave without care. Was that proper stewardship of the resources I entrusted to you?

Potea: Silence

Christ: You say your family’s needs came first, but did your family need so much while my people went hungry and naked outside your home and church? I picked you from a poor family and blessed you so you can be a channel that supplies the needs of others in need, but you became a sponge that kept everything and a leech that wanted more.

What became of loving your neighbour as you love yourself? Even the little you gave, you did to avoid shame before men and expected them to help you in your time of need. Am I accusing you falsely?

Potea (Looking down): No.

Christ: And who said loving is about giving things to people? One way to love another is by giving people your presence – undivided and undistracted attention. I became a man like you, lived among you and promised to be with you always because I loved you.

When you had no money to give, you could have given time to serve and be your family, friends, brethren and those in need. Didn’t Apostle Paul tell you not to forsake the habit of meeting together?

The early church met daily to pray, learn, share and have holy communion in their homes. (Hebrews 10:25, Acts 2:42-47) But these spiritual disciplines meant little in your lifetime!

Potea: I was busy making ends meet.

Christ: You did. What did that earn you in eternity? We created you to work but not at the expense of resting your body, growing your mind, and spending time with your physical and spiritual family.

Sadly, your busyness was driven by greed, comparison and competition with others. (Ecclesiastes 4:4) Had you learnt contentment, gratitude and trust in my Father’s provision for you, He would have provided for your needs in His time and way.

Unfortunately, the world made you think that without a big house, posh car, best schools for your children, designer clothes or big positions in your career, your life was a failure. Now that you’re here, does it matter the car you drove, the house you lived in, the clothes you put on or the positions you held?

When you wasted time on things that didn’t add value to love God and people; you were wasting your life. Didn’t Apostle James tell you that true religion is refusing to be contaminated, polluted, stained and corrupted by the wicked world? (James 1:27)

You often took that warning for granted. You know what I mean, don’t you?

Potea: I watched a lot of movies and spent hours on social media, but it was helping me to relax!

Christ: Don’t you think it was foolish to pay people who produced content that destroyed your mind, made your body lazy and interfered with your intimacy with God?

What did you really gain from it other than distracting you from focusing on your purpose and assignment in your generation?

And why didn’t you at least create and share godly content with others that would spread my message and make others wise?

Potea: You’re making me feel guilty and sad.

Christ: My Father created man with free will. We can’t force you to do the right thing. When Cain intended to kill Abel, God warned him but he refused to listen. (Genesis 4:7)

I’ve shed tears for you and interceded for you many times but you were bent on having life your way rather than denying, losing or giving up your life for me. Didn’t I give you all you needed to live a godly life? (Matthew 16:24-25, Romans 8:34, 2 Peter 1:3)

Loving you cost me everything so you can deny me nothing out of your free will.

Potea: I’m sorry Lord. But what about the many years I served in church and the many people I led to Christ?

Christ: Yes, the Holy Spirit gave you gifts and you served but what was your motive? Was it because you loved me and other people or because it brought you personal satisfaction and public admiration?

Christ: Let’s pass your works through the fire.

Potea went through the fire with his works. The fire burnt everything. (1 Corinthians 3:11-15)

Potea (shocked and on his knees crying): What happened, Lord?

Christ: You sacrificed much but you didn’t do it out of love for me and people. The first and second greatest commandment is LOVE.

Did you love me? And were you intentional in storing your treasure in heaven? (Matthew 22:37-39, Matthew 6:19-20)

Potea: Yes I did.

Christ: Potea, if you loved me, why didn’t you obey my commands? (John 14:23) And why did you call me Lord, yet you said no to me many times?

Without love, you became nothing, everything you did became nothing and as you can see, you gained nothing from whatever you said and did.

Love is the greatest of all virtues and fruit of the Spirit but your love for others grew cold and forsook your first love for me. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Matthew 24:12, Revelations 2:4)

Potea (hands tightly holding the head, still in tears): Please Jesus. Forgive me. I don’t want to go to hell. Please save me. I’ll do anything you want.

Christ: I gave you many chances when you were still alive. Once you cross over to this side, it’s time for judgment. (Hebrews 9:27)

The scriptures warned you that thieves, liars, cowards, fornicators, adulterers and other sinners will not inherit the Kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)

Potea: I sincerely thought you were my friend.

Christ: I never knew you. You believed a false gospel and a different Christ. It’s not me you knew and served because if you did, you’d do the things I commanded you. Instead, you went with the religious flow of false Christianity in your generation rather than following me. (Luke 13:25-27, Matthew 25:41)

Potea (wailing even more): Please return me to earth so I can make things right. I don’t want to spend eternity in the Lake Of Fire. (Revelations 20:15)

Christ: I wish you had examined yourself often, checked with scriptures when men of God preached to you and treasured the truth of my Words more than anyone’s opinions, sermons, revelations or prophecies. Then you’d have escaped the eternal condemnation and damnation reserved for Satan, demons and the wicked.

You got most of what you desired in the world but you lost what matters most – your soul. (Matthew 16:26)

Potea: I wish I had listened and valued your Words.

The angels picked Potea from the floor and escorted him to the Lake Of Fire that burns forever!

Jesus Christ says;

¹² “Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life.

¹⁵ Outside the city are the dogs—the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie.

¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this message for the churches. I am both the source of David and the heir to his throne.^[e] I am the bright morning star.”

¹⁷ The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Let anyone who hears this say, “Come.” Let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who desires drink freely from the water of life.

¹⁸ And I solemnly declare to everyone who hears the words of prophecy written in this book: If anyone adds anything to what is written here, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book.

¹⁹ And if anyone removes any of the words from this book of prophecy, God will remove that person’s share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.

²⁰ He who is the faithful witness to all these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon!”

Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

(Revelations 22:12-20)

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