Invitation to heaven

The Kingdom of God is an open invitation, God has called each of us to work in His Kingdom. God never invited anyone or created anyone to be a spectator. The calling into His Kingdom is not child play, its not a popularity contest, in fact it is anything but a competition. It does not grow on the best of us but through the worst of us. This is a blind invitation. It's not a case of who does God get along with the most, or who is the most eloquent amongst us. Remember that God chose Aaron not for His Own sake but for Moses, who kept insisting that he was not a good speaker. Each day, God invites us, just as He gathers His angels in heavenly meeting, we have an open invitation, to work for Him or against Him. It can neither be both or none, you have to either be cold or hot but not lukewarm. The first person to follow Jesus into paradise was a vile man, an extremely corrupt man. We know this because of 1. His own admission and 2. His punishment by the Romans. But that's the thing, it would seem that Jesus would have chosen to be followed by someone else, maybe Paul or Moses or Jeremiah, but instead chose to go with a thief, who's name was not even mentioned. And if such doors are open to those who weren't even looking, how much more should be expected for those looking? The open invite says all should come, some are looking at the doors, some are going through the doors, while others are looking at who is going in and who is not. God has decided in eternity that the door to heaven is open to each of us, and He has chose to reach people through people. The reason God does not go to each individual and bluntly reveals Himself is because of His glory. God's glory is full splendour and majesty, and it is Holy. Have you ever witnessed a light so bright that it could make you permanently blind? Or sound so loud it would rupture your eardrums and cause permanent deafness? It's sort of similar to some extent with God. If God were to speak to us, directly, most of us would not survive. Because of our fallen nature God would have destroyed us in the attempts. In mount Sinai, the israelites realized this potential problem and made a request which would alter the world for future generations...they basically asked God to stay away from us, because of His terror, and rather pick people who He would interact with on behalf of the nations, at the time they were talking about Moses. But God, did not only answer them then, He answered them for good, and sent prophets instead of going Himself. In a case of a disobedient servant, who would you rather be 1. The messenger God sent who never passed the message or 2. The servant who never got the message because the messenger never passed it?The invitation goes beyond just you being invited, but you being invited to become an invitor, you have been invited to this wonderful Kingdom and the first thing the King says is, go and make others come to the banquet. And what do you say? It's clear in the Bible We were not just invited to be sitting and waiting for the party to start because the party is waiting for those invited, it is not going to start without them. Just like the parable of the prodigal sons, the party didn't start when he left, it started when he arrived. It's easier now to give reasons than it will be then, we will not only be held responsible for the sermons we preached, we will be held responsible for the sermons we did not preach. It will not just be about the lives we saved, but the lives we failed, and God forbid, the lives we took. The invitation was for God to be joined by more than just the Trinity and angels in eternity but by all of Adams descendents. And the relationship we would have as Adams children would be similar to that of Cain and Abel, and the prodigal sons, and Jesus and Satan. Can we as Christians have so much hate in us, for what God created, the we would sit and watch while His creation goes helplessly astray while God has not only put us in their paths but gave us an asernal of weapons so great that even the devil and his angels tremble in it's presence? The sermons we never preached are ultimately the invitations from God to His people that we after having agreed to join His Kingdom to make Him King, threw all of them away in the ditch. There will be many on judgment day, who will regret not serving. Each day, God places people in our paths He wants in His Kingdom, a host of angles waiting to celebrate and in just a few words, just a few actions we could have altered someone's eternity and you know what we said to that? *No* The person who converted us to this faith could have said no, they could have made an excuse like...I don't want to lose them as a friend, or we are having so much fun I don't want to ruin it, or I don't want to be unpopular or...one day that will not matter anymore. We are so accustomed to sacrificing this invitation we forgot how far off we were when He found us. And He found us through messengers who were bold enough to come into the dark with us, who weren't concerned about our temporal lives more than our eternity. It's easy now, to look someone and say I'm not just gifted enough or what will people say? This is the time when we should be soThe invitation goes beyond just you being invited, but you being invited to become an invitor, you have been invited to this wonderful Kingdom and the first thing the King says is, go and make others come to the banquet. And what do you say? It's clear in the Bible We were not just invited to be sitting and waiting for the party to start because the party is waiting for those invited, it is not going to start without them. Just like the parable of the prodigal sons, the party didn't start when he left, it started when he arrived. It's easier now to give reasons than it will be then, we will not only be held responsible for the sermons we preached, we will be held responsible for the sermons we did not preach. It will not just be about the lives we saved, but the lives we failed, and God forbid, the lives we took. The invitation was for God to be joined by more than just the Trinity and angels in eternity but by all of Adams descendents. And the relationship we would have as Adams children would be similar to that of Cain and Abel, and the prodigal sons, and Jesus and Satan. Can we as Christians have so much hate in us, for what God created, the we would sit and watch while His creation goes helplessly astray while God has not only put us in their paths but gave us an asernal of weapons so great that even the devil and his angels tremble in it's presence? The sermons we never preached are ultimately the invitations from God to His people that we after having agreed to join His Kingdom to make Him King, threw all of them away in the ditch. There will be many on judgment day, who will regret not serving. Each day, God places people in our paths He wants in His Kingdom, a host of angles waiting to celebrate and in just a few words, just a few actions we could have altered someone's eternity and you know what we said to that? *No* The person who converted us to this faith could have said no, they could have made an excuse like...I don't want to lose them as a friend, or we are having so much fun I don't want to ruin it, or I don't want to be unpopular or...one day that will not matter anymore. We are so accustomed to sacrificing this invitation we forgot how far off we were when He found us. And He found us through messengers who were bold enough to come into the dark with us, who weren't concerned about our temporal lives more than our eternity. It's easy now, to look someone and say I'm not just gifted enough or what will people say? This is the time when we should be so mesmerized, so blinded by His glory that we should hardly notice anything else, I am going to preach even if I have stage fright because I am not looking at the crowd I am looking at the crown. It's easy to say, I'm so concerned with what they are saying or are going to say about me, or what if they ask things i don't know, but how would you hear them when their voices are not loud enough to silence that of God? You will never have the perfect time or place, you will never be perfect at something, you might never even know how to do it right. But understand that God has invited you to serve Him as you are. He will make changes, that's for sure, but He will perfect you in heaven not on earth but He expects you to start working before then, because by then it would be too late. There will never be the right gifts, the right person but always there will be the right God Who will go through all lengths to reach His people mesmerized, so blinded by His glory that we should hardly notice anything else, I am going to preach even if I have stage fright because I am not looking at the crowd I am looking at the crown. It's easy to say, I'm so concerned with what they are saying or are going to say about me, or what if they ask things i don't know, but how would you hear them when their voices are not loud enough to silence that of God? You will never have the perfect time or place, you will never be perfect at something, you might never even know how to do it right. But understand that God has invited you to serve Him as you are. He will make changes, that's for sure, but He will perfect you in heaven not on earth but He expects you to start working before then, because by then it would be too late. There will never be the right gifts, the right person but always there will be the right God Who will go through all lengths to reach His people 👴