Jesus Saved

Hello my beloved readers. I actually have some time in my wild little Jesus life to do some serious (ha ha) blogging. So here I am writing to you from my happy vacation with my brother and sister in law in beautiful Texas. I want to thank you ahead of time because blogging this next section is helping me better understand and see the latest revelations God has shown me about my awesome Jesus and His finished work on the cross.

I was always taught in church and in my Sunday school class that there were sinners and the saved. The saved were the people who asked Jesus into their heart and somehow like magic in that exact moment you were transformed into a new creature. Everybody else though, forgive my brashness, was screwed unless they accepted Jesus and doomed to hellish torment for all eternity. Bless my Jesus that I did not spend too much time even paying attention to the theologies I learned in the church but most of my time being sweetly loved by my Jesus. Once I came to correct teaching it lined up with what I had already experienced of my true Jesus in my heart. It made sense. It made me happy. It worked. So that was what I was taught before, but here is what I understand now.

Jesus died for every single person on this planet past, present, and future. The word "all" is used so often in the New Testament it's hilarious that I ever missed it. Just a few verses include 2 Cor. 5:10 (salvation for world), Titus 2:11 and John 12:32 (all people), 2 Cor. 5:13 (all died in Christ), Romans 5:18-19, and 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (all made alive in Christ). Salvation isn't about our response to Christ, but His response to you. There are now simple believers and unbelievers. Believers are already enjoying the benefits of this reality of true holiness and unity with Christ and blissed out joy and love while unbelievers are simply those who do not believe what Christ has done for them and live a lie. If you don't know that God loves you, saved you, made you perfect, made you one with Him, is totally flipping awesome and made you that way.... well if you don't know that... you are going to be pretty miserable and look to anything to try to make yourself feel better. You will do what we like to call... sin. The beautiful thing is that "Christ died for us while we were yet sinners."(Romans 5:8) Paul evens tells the pagans in Acts 17:28, "we are his offspring." Jesus married His bride and then fixed her. His kiss of the cross is what transformed her. Our sin should not be the emphasis because He killed it... instead the truth... Jesus... His salvation... His love is our every word and message.

All the unbelievers in our world are family, saved, children of God... they just don't know it yet. They are lost. They are walking around with a false identity. But Jesus came to seek and save the lost. Now He lives through us and as we drink this message ourselves we cannot help but be overflowing well springs of love and truth. We cannot help but see Jesus in everyone and everything because His light shines in the darkness. Our message changes from, "accept Jesus" to "Jesus accepted you, He loves you, He made you new, you are His special child and He just wants to bliss you our forever." And once you simply believe that like a little child, well, lets just say you are going look and act just like the little unique reflection of Jesus that you are.

This brings up questions like will all someday believe him and why do some not? To answer those... I simply don't know, but Christ lives in me and He does so I am okay with not having all the answers. But I must say I do hope that someday just like God Himself hopes, "that all will come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9) and that "all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 2:4). Do I believe that people can decide to believe on Christ and enjoy reality after death... I'm not sure. But I will say that the Word when describing heaven does say that the "gates will never be closed" (Rev. 21:25, Isaiah 60:11, and Isaiah 26:2). Scripture always tells us that "love always hopes" and "love never fails (1 Cor. 13: 7-8). I also believing that hell is a self inflicted place of unbelief. God still loves those who chose to lie in that lie world and He still sees them as saved. I believe both heaven and hell are manifested on earth in the present too from those who believe and don't. But I cannot help but hope that everyone will someday whether in this life or the next will decide to believe on Christ just as much as a family member with a lost loved one wishes that someday their child will come back home. And isn't this the Father's attitude in the story of the prodigal son.

Finally I say if we believe that sin could enter to all people through one man Adam why can't we believe that salvation entered to all people through Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:21-22). Seriously who is stronger... sin or Jesus. Jesus won hands down. And He won by dying naked on tree and... possessing evil itself and dying it's death. "He became sin who knew no sin, that we might become His righteousness." (2 Corinthians 5:21)

Jesus loves you. Jesus saved you. Jesus, the most awesome bridegroom of all time married you and now you are just like Him and can enjoy Him and be enjoyed by Him forever. And now you can enjoy the big Jesus family and let them know that what He did for you, He did for them too. Now that is the good news. :)