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2023, For What It's Worth To You, Forgiveness, Gospel of John, Repentance, Salvation, What does GOD Want to do for me?

Cuss Word

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I have spent the majority of my life having no desire to injure the feelings or the walk of others. Mainly as a Disciple of JESUS, my aim and my hope are to give godly counsel and encouragement to anyone who is willing to read any piece that I write.  Obviously, I am imperfect in this endeavor. I started writing devotional material in 2003. I have said many things. Some I regret. Most, I don’t. I’ve made it my goal, to be honest – often telling on myself as I write and seriously trying to NOT tell on others. I prize the privacy of others and guard against revealing matters that are not mine to tell. If I fail in that, it grieves me.

What’s this all about today?
Well, I’m here today to talk about hell.  And why would I want to write about that?! Because I genuinely care about people. I don’t want anyone to spend eternity there and I do mean anyone! I really want to warn people and give people the Good News that they don’t have to go there. It’s the same Message that was given to me and I said YES, I accept.
I want ALL people to accept and believe the Good News.

So, I have questions.
If JESUS did not come to save us from hell, what did He come to save us from?

And if He did come to save us from hell why are we to NOT tell people they are on their way to hell?

Why not ask people are you going to hell when you die?
I know why I have not.  I’m scared. It’s uncomfortable.

And on the heels of that, my question is how uncomfortable will they be in eternity if they die without getting off that road to hell? I mean don’t we get it, People ARE on their way to hell?
It’s a fact.

Look. It’s not us judging them to tell them hell is their destination unless they change their direction. No. It isn’t.  John 3:16-19
If they have not been born again they already ARE destined for hell.
They are on their way now and are one heartbeat from dropping right into that GOD-forsaken place.

What are we supposed to do?

Just be quiet about hell and hope the SINS they love will somehow become not fun anymore? Then what?  I wonder how well our timidity of warning about hell is curtailing the stream of people dropping into it daily?

How can we trust that today’s people even believe there is a hell when it is polled that most professing Christians don’t even believe there is a hell?

Yes, I have heard — Build relationships.
Some people don’t have enough time left for us to cultivate a 3-year relationship with them before we proclaim The Gospel to them.

There’s got to be a way for the Followers of JESUS to talk about hell as much as He did.
JESUS did not come here to give us a better life HERE.
He came to rescue us from HELL and to train us HERE for LIFE in Heaven (eternity). Check it out, dig into your Bible, and prove to yourself how much He talked about hell in three (3) short years of Proclaiming the Good News.
JESUS talked more about hell than He did about heaven.

You see it takes a nanosecond to actually transfer us from a destiny in hell (from the kingdom of darkness) into HIS KINGDOM of LIGHT but it takes a lifetime to get the hell-bent nature in us to die.

I’m not suggesting we go after people like a bull in a china shop.bf8df83a381a352ddc07093e1a9b8ec2

I’m suggesting we study the Real JESUS and do it His way, not the way we have been taught He did.

The woman taken in adultery? The woman at the well? As far as we can tell from Scripture that was their FIRST meeting, both women.
Read how bold He was with the woman at the well.

Preachers usually pick the woman caught in adultery – neither do I condemn you they preach. Sometimes they go further and say He said go and sin no more. Sometimes they don’t.

He didn’t have to condemn her. She was already condemned. So is every unrepentant unbeliever you and I will ever meet.
Condemned to hell already they are.
Because of their sins? No. Did I get your attention?
People are not sinners because they sin.
People sin BECAUSE THEY ARE SINNERS.
And it is this state of being a sinner that must be changed to avoid hell.

When are we going to get this?
When are we going to grasp that people are doomed to hell if they do not get a re-born, new Nature? Saying a prayer, saying they are sorry for their sins is not going to get the job done.
They actually have to meet the REAL JESUS via HOLY SPIRIT and get a BLOOD TRANSFUSION.
When is the last time you heard that preached, hell or no hell?

I get it. Talking about hell is offensive and uncomfortable so if we don’t want to ask them if they are going to hell, can we at least ask, Are you RIGHT with GOD?

HOLY SPIRIT, PLEASE MAKE ME BOLD ENOUGH TO AT LEAST ASK THAT!

Are you hearing me?
I’m as scared as you are.
I’m as uncomfortable as you are with this. Even so, I know we must start talking to people about hell and not just use the word as a Cuss word.

If you have made it this far in your reading of this lengthy, uncomfortable post, I commend you! Will you now decide to at least pray about it? And pray for me while you are at it — I need HOLY SPIRIT boldness and deep, deep Godly love.
Thank you, dear Friends.

Shalom, Kathie

2023, Christian Living, For What It's Worth To You, Holy Soap Box, Just a Short Pop-In

It Hurt

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I am not here to publicly embarrass anyone. If I were, I would send this directly to Facebook, front, and center on my personal page because it was on my Facebook that the (unmodified) picture below was posted.
I checked out the original Poster’s page – it hurt.  I won’t return there.

It bleeds my spirit that multitudes of people today give evidence that they believe they can have GOD’s favor and forgiveness and live any way they choose, disobeying His Word daily.

It’s not so, People. It’s not so.

GOD commands His Children to practice holiness and obedience to His Scripture and if we are not doing that we need to REPENT immediately and we can be sure of this:
HE is NOT number 1 to any one of us if we are not practicing Biblical obedience, consistently daily.

Here’s the subject Facebook post.
I redacted the Facebook page names, wrote the caption, lettered in white script, and added a couple of flowers for covering.
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We must be careful how we live. 

Shalom, Kathie

2022, For What It's Worth To You, Questions

Hunger Pains

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Depending on how accurate is WordPress with its accounting, the White Stone Blog post from June 2012 linked below is the last one listed as to the number of views since 2012.
Yes, I have been reviewing posts on the blog today; I have written a few over the years.
Some of them light, perhaps even a couple of them were frivolous, and others hard-hitting.
However, each and every one was written hoping to connect with the Reader and to point them to JESUS and HIS  WORD.

May I ask you my Brothers and Sisters in CHRIST who are also my Friends on FB, do you have people in your circle with whom you want to share The Word of GOD?
If we are Believers who say we believe The Last Days are fast approaching or perhaps already here, how important is it to us to know our family and friends are right with GOD?
I want to help.
When you read certain posts at The White Stone Blog and people come to your mind, please consider sharing the post with them. None of us know how much time we have left to prepare for what has been recorded in Scripture, that shall surely come to be.

Should not there be an urgency in us to connect people with Scripture?
Shouldn’t we, the Born-Again, have gnawing hunger pains, yearning to be NOURISHED by Scripture and cravings to NOURISH others from The Bible?
And if we don’t, isn’t it time to learn why we don’t?

There was a time I wanted this blog to be well-known — I don’t care about that anymore but I do want to connect as many people with Scripture as I can while I am here.  I am well content with being invisible as long as JESUS is lifted up.
And if you have that same desire, and if you find something here at The White Stone that strikes a chord — please share it with others.
Facebook, Email, whatever means you have to share The Full Gospel of JESUS, do it!

The 2012 post: SLA

Love and thanks, Kathie 

2022, Acts, Christian Living, For What It's Worth To You, Isaiah, It's a Bonus Post, Pardon my Observations 2022, Questions

Used to be Sins

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Since I could not, not write it, I might as well publish it.

Jesus didn’t come because we are just messed up.

He didn’t come because we make mistakes.

He did not have to be born into the limitations of time and the human body because we make mistakes – uh oh I bought a red sweater when the memo said to get a blue one. That’s a mistake!

He came because we are sinners, not just messed up people who make mistakes. And when we do turn from our sins TO HIM we are then transformed from sinner to Saint and we spend the rest of our time on this earth learning to live Saintly.

No more excuses oh I’m just a sinner, GOD understands I can’t help it.

That’s a lie from hell!

If we are born again, Holy Spirit lives within us.

HE RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD!

Are we going to say He in us can’t stop this continual practice of the same old sin over and over and over again?

Are we going to say He can’t deliver us from this perpetual state described as messed up?

Because if we are we better check and see if we actually KNOW The GOD of The BIBLE.

We better make sure we are not preaching on behalf of and serving the god of this world.

It is no honor to GOD when we continue to confess year after year that we are messed up. No!

Preach that without repentance and conversion people are hell-deserving sinners and everyone that dies without turning from sin to GOD will burn in hell. No exceptions.

BUT UPON CONVERSION, when we are indwelt by Holy Spirit we learn to practice less and less sin.

We become victorious over sin day after day.

Anything less fails to give GOD the glory He deserves.

Here’s the truth, some sins I don’t struggle with – they are not even on my radar anymore. Holy Spirit has delivered me from them. I don’t practice them. Am I saying I am victorious over every sin?

No!!!

But I am making progress in my walk with HIM.

I won’t fully make it here (sinless) but that is no excuse to just give up and give in to temptations.

No. No. No.

Pray.

If you cannot say you are making progress and there are ‘used to be sins’ that you just don’t practice anymore, then I am begging you to check to see if you really have a Damascus Road experience with JESUS. Find out if you are truly indwelt by Holy Spirit. See Acts 9. Isaiah 30:15

Ask GOD to let you know if you really have turned from your sins to HIM and read your Bible and continue to pray until He answers you from the pages of your Bible.

Love and good night, Kathie