Nehemiah 9:21 “Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.”
As we move into our 14th year in revival and the birth of our church, the Beloved Holy Spirit is reminding and teaching us that we are to be careful so we may not be mistaken on the goodness of God and His Holiness. As God’s people, even in your disobedience, you may still experience “lacking nothing” because God is a good God! God does provide, and at your level of faith or at the level of others whom you may be under. But just because you eat and live fairly well does not equate to entering heaven. For Heaven is another matter which requires great faith. His Grace is there, but do you have the faith? Do you not think this is a sobering warning?
How can we say we have faith to get into heaven, but we have no faith for our marriages to be restored? Faith to find a job? Faith to finish school? Faith to get healthy? Faith and discipline to say no to sin? Faith to stay away from crack, drugs, vape, porn, beer, weed, phone addiction, etc? Faith to say sorry and make peace? Faith to know how to live as an adult and take care of your business? Faith to stop lying to your pastors? Faith to get out of poverty? Faith to get out of your demonic attacks?
Do you think getting to heaven requires less faith? No, faith to enter heaven will bring us into holiness with Him, as the Bible says, “without holiness, no one will see the Lord!”
Hebrews 3:10-11 BSB “Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My REST.’”
God’s people tested Him ten times, and then to put salt on the wound, they flagrantly disobeyed God at the edge of the promised land and were sent back to wander in their wilderness for 40 years to die off in old age or to drop dead from life’s complications. However, HE was still with them and took very good care of them since HE is a good God.
But the question remains, do you have the faith to enter heaven today if you died? If the answer is no or if you are not sure, then why are you not changing but staying and doing the same thing over and over as if you are going in a circle in the wilderness?
FAITH to enter heaven is a faith that conquers all things. As the Bible says, a faith to overcome the world! You must continue to overcome and conquer until the end. Do not expect me to keep changing your diapers and holding your hand, for that is only to experience the goodness of God. But you need to choose to grow up and obtain a faith that conquers the world.
Senior Pastor Steve Kim