The last time I was in church all I could do was cry. I cried for those who came to the bank of the river but would not enter in, from the Pastor down to the usher.
A young teenage girl came up to me at the end of the service to console the old man who had seemed to have his first taste of yes Jesus loves me. She was innocent of evil never yet having left her first love, but leave our first love we must.
In my youth I was very much the partier, my little brother for awhile followed. In the process of time, he became a police officer. It happened one day I came home to eat lunch with my family. As I sat my little brother began telling a story of an arrest in which he called the perpetrator a dirt bag. I stopped him in mid tale with a What did you just say! I recounted in a few words how just a few short years ago he was this same dirt bag (which he knew I was speaking of his nakedness relative to his salvation experience as did the rest who were sitting there). He hung his head in shame, and the story ended.
Why a sinner goes away justified is because they do not justify themselves which has every bit to do with the first commandment as it does with the, and all things are of Christ.
The soul constantly wants to build a temple. a city, a name, a son rather than lay at the masters feet, because to this harlot the truth is still something outside of them, which by this woman rules over them. This then becomes an image (as the first image, in the first garden that lacked still one thing) until their eyes are opened to the reality that this image mocks the truth of self.
(As you know) Practical is seed time and harvest until the truth is seen by them as something fulfilled in them, something God has done, and they have had no part in. A place where even your adversary you have come into agreement with. (this is the difference (in one form) of the Word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ as something we all posses whether we yet understand this truth or not).
I have more friends (those who will receive me into everlasting habitations) that saints deem sinners then sinners who deem themselves saints, who go in before the ones who are still unknowingly ruled over by their own soul, or wandering between two mountains, which is par for the course.
Some will die in their sins.
