Wisdom Keys June 17

 *EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️

Fri/17th/June/2022

*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach) 

_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_

*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (111)*

_"So everyone who acknowledges Me before men, I also will acknowledge before My Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies Me before men, I also will deny before My Father who is in heaven"_ (Matthew 10:32-33). In other words, when the time of judgement before God comes, Jesus will vouch for everyone who embraced Him as their Savior. He will stand alongside them, before God the Father, as a righteous witness to vouch for who are His. 

The implication is that those who are His will be welcomed into eternity with the Father. Now Jesus adds that the opposite is also true. He will refuse to acknowledge to God anyone who denies Christ to other men. Because human beings can only be declared righteous by faith in Jesus (John 14:6), those He denies will be denied by the Father, as well. The consequences will be eternal death (John 3:36). This statement inspires a great deal of fear, since it seems to suggest that anyone who denies their faith, on earth, will be lost. However, there are reasons to expect denying Jesus to be a real temptation. 

For the apostles and the early Christians, a simple denial that Jesus was the Son of God could have been the difference between life and death, arrest or freedom. The stakes that came with being associated with Him will be high for them. Jesus, though, want His followers to understand that the stakes of denying Him will be much higher than merely death on this side of eternity. The full context of Scripture strongly suggests that a single, panic-driven denial of Jesus will not necessarily end a believer's opportunity to spend eternity with the Father. 

Christians are saved by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Peter will most famously deny Christ at a crucial moment because of his own fear of being arrested and killed. After Jesus' resurrection and arrival of the Holy Spirit, Peter spent the rest of his life powerfully acknowledging Jesus to others. Where this warning become more dire is in the lives of those who consistently, or easily dissociate themselves from Christ for the sake of health, wealth, popularity, pleasures, or freedom. 

*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️

_Those who aren't willing to be identified with Jesus on earth won't be allowed to claim association with Him in eternity. Time for choice is now._ 

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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*

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