ONE WILL . TWO CHOICES.
There
are two forces at work in the Universe. The most powerful one is The LORD JESUS CHRIST.
The second most powerful one is the satan.
Human
beings have been given Free Will by The LORD.
That
is, poor as well as rich, bond as well as free, female as well as male, young
as well as old, ignorant as well as brilliant... we all have ONE thing given in
EQUAL amounts to each of us: a Free
Will.
No-one
or no thing can MAKE us CHOOSE to do
wrong or right.
Now,
there may be a price to pay for doing the right thing, but if we are willing to
pay that price no matter what it is, we will see that NO-ONE or NO THING can
change our will to do what is right.
No-one
can MAKE us choose to do wrong.
If we
die holding onto our right choice, we die... but "they" have not
forced us to change. That is why
"they" kill us: we would not change even in the face of death.
A Free
Will has been granted each and every individual on planet earth.
Because
Man did not give it to us, Man cannot take it away. It was given at creation to
Man by the LORD of Creation.
Therefore,
HE can take our Free Will away... and HE does. As soon as we close our eyes in death, our Free Will is
ended: we must remain in our choice.
That
choice was made while we went through our allotted years on earth. Yes, every
day --- indeed, every hour --- we lived on planet earth, we choose.
What
did we choose ?
With
our GOD-given Free Will, we chose to yield allegiance to one of the 2 forces of
the Universe.
At any
point in time in our entire lives, we agree with either The LORD or else with the satan.
In
short, we either yield to The
LORD JESUS CHRIST or we
yield to the satan... at any given point in time throughout or lives.
Saved
or Unsaved... we agree with either ONE+ or the other... and never both at the same point in time
because they are deadly enemies.
This is
why sharp words, bad attitudes, and regretful actions are oftentimes seen in
persons who are Saved.
They have agreed with their Adamic nature instead of agreeing with the LORD.
Now
some persons might think they do NOT agree with the satan, even though they
want nothing to do with The
LORD. That is, they do not
want the LORD
JESUS CHRIST to
control their lives. They want to be free of "religious" strictures
which hamper their Free Will.
So,
they live their lives decently and as humanely as THEY see fit... without the LORD JESUS.
What
they do not realize is that they were BORN with a suction cup attaching
themselves to the satan. All progeny of Adam were born with this spiritual
appendage, unfortunately.
If the
satan cannot lure people by evil temptations into his camp, then he lures them
by good !
Yes, he
instructs them through their "human mind" in how to be good and
righteous --- humanly-speaking --- and attaches them to the OTHER side of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil.
Unfortunately
for these good-doers, they are STILL attached to the wrong tree; they have not
been attached to the Tree of
Life. Because all men speak well of them, their
error is hidden to their own eyes and they are in grave danger.
This
danger is, of course, Eternal Damnation.
Those
fellows hanging onto the evil side of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil are actually in better shape because they KNOW they are wretched and evil.
And, in their better moments, some may wish they did not "have" to
always be evil, but (sigh) they are powerless to change ... they think.
Human
beings have been given their own Free Will.
No-one can take it away here on earth. In addition, NO-ONE can control
that Free Will except the individual TO
WHOM IT HAS BEEN GIVEN.
Furthermore,
our own Free Will is the only freedom we have.
GOD did
not give EVERYBODY across the globe in all era's and ages the right to vote,
own property, or even marry whom he / she chose.
Indeed,
some individuals have been born into the most wretched living conditions and
circumstances imaginable.
Some
live in slavery, some in horrible fear. Some in bondages that most of us cannot
even imagine. Some have even their rights to their own bodies taken from them,
and that, at a very young age.
Most
common folk have very limited choices for vocation, recreation, housing, etc.
Most
can do very little to change the range of choices they have for their station
in life and very few can change their station, even in a free society.
Our
human freedoms generally are limited to the "tea or coffee ?"
variety... choices of very little significance.
That
Free Will, though, is granted to us all --- each and every person on earth ---
by GOD for one purpose: to choose to whom we will be attached for all
Eternity.
If we
choose the satan, then we will be attached to him throughout Eternity.
If we
choose our flesh, then again we will be attached to the satan throughout
Eternity.
If we
choose the mind's way, humanly-speaking, using Reason as our guide, then we
will be attached to --- Surprise!--- the satan, just like Eve and Adam, as they
reasoned out the path for their own happiness in the Garden of Eden.
In
short, if we choose what we think
is best to enhance Self, then we will be attached for all Eternity to the satan
once again.
If, in
our Free Will, we choose to attach ourselves to the LORD JESUS CHRIST, then HE+ breaks
the natural, Adamic bond we have with the satan and we are promised
Eternity in Heaven !
However,
the satan will NOT let us go that easily. After all, we were attached at birth
to him and served him many a-year. He was, as one could say, very
"attached" to us!
When we
yield the control of our life to The LORD JESUS CHRIST, that
attachment to the satan is severed... unless we turn BACK to our Adamic,
natural man's ways... which always leads us back into the satan's camp.
Unfortunately,
that "turning back" can happen in little ways as well as big.
At the
start, we do not forsake JESUS
CHRIST, but we
also do not want to forsake some of our life-long habits, our vices, our
faults, or other un-Scriptural ways we have developed when under the tutelage
of the satan's camp.
Two
forces --- and only two --- are at work in this Universe. Neither one FORCES us
to choose its kingdom. Our choice is totally voluntary.
At any
given point in time, we have the Free Will to be used by ONE+ or the other... but never both at the same time.
Our only
freedom is to choose TO WHICH we will attach ourselves.
THE
LORD will not and the satan can not make us choose; we do
it ourselves.
That is
why man is totally accountable unto GOD.
We are
not accountable for the conditions into which we are born. We are not accountable for what others do unto
us.
We are
only --- but, EVER --- accountable for choosing The LORD JESUS or the
satan.
It is
OUR choice... our only REAL choice here on earth.
