BACKSLIDING TO HELL by Mike Peralta (best books to read in your 20s txt) 📕

Meeting the lady and getting married is a gift from God every bit as being single such as Paul's gift. When it is time to receive that gift , and God knows when it is time, let Him bring the lady across your path that He has for you. You trust Almighty God with your eternal salvation but you can't trust Him to bring you a mate? God says He will give you the desire of your heart. He can say that because He is the one who gave you the desire in the first place. When it is time, and fortunately for you and her that will be when you are mature enough to take headship for one of His daughters and when it is His will, for God wants godly families, you can pray and He will answer.

But first I would pray that the Lord would reveal to you what it is to be a godly husband and to put you through the refining fire so that you are ready to take that position. The Word states that when you get married you "shall have trouble in the flesh". It is wise and I state this again IT IS WISE to take care of as much of these troubles as you can before you are married. Then I would pray that the Lord would bring her to you. Don't go seeking, looking to see if this or that girl has enough check marks on your perfect wife list. Pray and trust, let God answer your prayer. All good gifts come from above and God loves you and her. Let Him bring you that gift and her let him bring you.

The fruit of meeting her should increase your service for God not distract you from it for two are better than one when it is God's will. When you two meet trust God to let you both know it, and you can pray singly and together as to whether you are meant to be more than just brother and sister. Remember God is Love. Don't try to manufacture it on your own. That is counterfeit, emotional, conditional love and that is why most, over 50% of Christian marriages end in divorce within 5 years. Take the time to let God fill you with His love for her and fill her with His love for you. If she is the one, God will do this whether you are together or apart. When you come to the point where you know it is God's will to marry her and she hears the same from the Lord, then you are ready to make that commitment, that life long covenant together.

A lot of people will say "that is crazy' and that 'our society does not work this way'. 'You are saying God is a matchmaker'. To that I say yea and amen. Societies change but the Lord thy God does not. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He made the first match and marriage in the beginning and He still does for those who know Him and seek His will.

"And this is the confidence, the assurance, the privilege of boldness, which we have in Him: we are sure that if we ask anything, make any request, according to His will, in agreement with His own plan, He listens to and hears us. And if, since we positively know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know, with settled and absolute knowledge, that we have, granted us as our present possessions, the requests made of Him." 1st John 5:14-15.

End of Article by Into The Light Ministries.

CONCLUSION.

We see from these testimonies and teachings the very serious consequences of sexual immorality, also called whoremongering, in all its forms. This includes lust, pornography, masturbation, adultery, sex outside of marriage, sex with your boyfriend, sex with your girl friend, sex with your fiance', going to topless bars or sex shops, homosexuality, orgies, bestiality or sex with animals, and sexual molestation of children. Unless the sinner repents we see the very serious danger that whoremongers or the sexually immoral are in. Jesus really does mean what He says in Revelation 21:8.

"WHOREMONGERS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE".

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Jesus sacrificed Himself so that those who believe in Him could be One with Him in the Most Holy Place and become part of the Body of Christ. Jesus so desires that all people would become saved, stay saved, and become One with Him. Jesus suffered so that none of us would have to suffer for our own sins in Hell.

Isaiah 53:4-5. “Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.”

If you truly repent and ask His forgiveness, Jesus will cleanse you and receive you back to Himself with great joy. He wants you back. Jesus sheds tears and longs for you to come back to Him.

COME BACK HOME!

Let us now read the Story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32.

“Jesus continued: There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, `Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.

Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

When he came to his senses, he said, `How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! ‘I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.' So he got up and went to his father.

But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. The son said to him, `Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

But the father said to his servants, `Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate.

Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. `Your brother has come,' he replied, `and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.'

The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, `Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!'

`My son,' the father said, `you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' ”

Remarks:

The son who left his father's house is an example of the souls who forsake God and His house. That son went to a far off country where he wasted his inheritance in immoral living. When he spent it all, he began to be in need. So he worked feeding the swine and he longed to fill his belly with the pods that the swine did eat.

All this gives us a picture as to what sin and living away from God might lead to. But as soon as that son felt how bad his situation was, he arose and came to his father asking forgiveness. This parable shows us the steps toward repentance. The Lord Jesus said regarding that son, "He arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." Luke 15:20.

How strong these words are and how explicit this illustration is by which the Lord Jesus wanted to show His great love and compassion to backsliders.

"But when he was a great way off." What do these words show us except yearning and waiting? I am sure the father probably looked out several times a day to see if his son was returning. That is why he saw his son returning even when his son was far off. Oh, how God the Father loves you and desires so greatly for you to return to Him. The earthly father, emotionally moved, waits for his son who had forsaken him and went out to do many sins. If this is the case with the earthly father whose life is full of weaknesses, how much then of the feelings of the Heavenly Father toward those who have backslid?

Jesus told us about God’s love and His desire to be good to us in another part of the Bible saying, "If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to those that ask Him?" Matthew 7:11.

What was the reaction of the father upon seeing his lost son? "He had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." The father had proceeded with all these steps toward his son even before the son uttered one word. That the son was turning back to the father showed to the father that this previously wayward son was truly humbling himself and truly wanted to make things right. And notice that the returning son was not seeking or demanding any rights. He was merely seeking forgiveness and the chance to now truly obey his father if only as a servant - not even with full privileges as a son.

The father’s compassion for his son just overtook the father. The father could not contain himself. He had to