0:00:00 - 0:00:31 I want to take a minute and share with you some principles that I have not um taught before to elaborate on others and to refresh you on others. So the theme of this video is it's a reflection on interactions I've had with people in the near term and for quite some time and I need to clarify a few things 0:00:31 - 0:01:02 that I don't think are clear for people in hopes that I can help them take the next leap forward. So one principle is that what we receive from God is not something that we build from the ground up. We use what we have access to, to become worthy for what he gives us from above. But progress doesn't 0:01:01 - 0:01:32 come from what is already around us, not in the true sense of the word, all we can do with what's around us is catch up to what already is now. Unfortunately, for many reasons that I won't get into our perceptions of religion and what it has to offer are very much limited to how we deal with what's around 0:01:32 - 0:01:56 us already. And in fact, that's a best case scenario because for most people who are religious they treat their religion as an excuse not to deal with what's around them. It's an escape from having to make the world a better place. But more importantly, it's an escape for having to become a better person 0:01:56 - 0:02:28 . So that's really problematic. But what I wanna talk about in this video is mostly about how we have to use and live up to what is already available to us if we have any hope of not just receiving, but even perceiving something better. When God sends it, there are conditions for God to send more those 0:02:28 - 0:02:54 conditions are that someone somewhere has to already be living completely in accordance with everything that has already been sent. So being true and faithful to all that's already been provided, God will provide more. There are ways that He does this, they're very specific and uh in case it's not obvious 0:02:53 - 0:03:20 I am being extremely careful in saying the bare minimum that I can to make the points that I have to make in this video. The long form of this is very long and uh you'll have to wait until the books that I'm working on are finished in order to read that longer case. So in order to qualify for what has 0:03:20 - 0:03:47 not yet been given, you have to live according to what already has and that is not a partial or optional thing. You are either in complete accordance with God as far as you currently believe Him to be or you aren't, you've taken upon yourself the name of Christ or you haven't, you're either in the Church 0:03:47 - 0:04:18 of God or you're in the church of the devil. There are not two ways to God. There's only one. Now, there are many starting points in this path because they're as individual as any person is. But all paths converge and they converge in and through and at Jesus Christ, if you act in any way at any time 0:04:17 - 0:04:52 differently than you believe, sincerely, Jesus would in your place, you are not in the path to God in the moment you act in such a way, you remove yourself out of his way. The good news is that there is a way back and that way is repentance that is to ask for forgiveness from God and to uh fix your life 0:04:51 - 0:05:19 in the way that you've fallen, you get back up and you try again. The bad news is that nothing less than this absolute submission to God will do. This is the gate. It's not the path, but it's how you enter into the path. And it is the only way most people, sadly, even most who profess to be Christians 0:05:18 - 0:05:48 have never actually repented because to repent, you have to completely forsake all things that you do say, feel desire that do not align perfectly with your present understanding of what Jesus would do in your place. The sad thing is that by far the greatest blessings that God has to offer lie on the 0:05:48 - 0:06:14 other side of this gate. Most Christians talk of forgiveness of sins, but they don't talk about conversion from sin, converting our desires from the things we think will fulfill them over to a, an implicit trust in God and a confidence that following Him with full purpose of heart, which doesn't leave 0:06:14 - 0:06:40 anything left over for anything else will yield greater blessings than anything else we could have done. There aren't any churches. I'm aware of that preach this message. And because of that, it's accurate to say that all churches are anti Christ. This is very sad. It makes God very sad. But the good 0:06:40 - 0:07:08 news is that things are changing and the world is changing because there is interest in doing God's will. Now, uh that being said, the purpose of this video is to draw attention to the fact that I presently only know one person other than myself who says that they always do whatever God tells them to 0:07:08 - 0:07:32 do, they always act in accordance with how they believe God would act in their uh situation and they never do anything that would contradict how they believe God would act in their situation. And that is not good news. It's not good news for the people to whom that does not apply. But I'll tell you something 0:07:31 - 0:07:55 and, and I will say also that um well, I don't have any personal knowledge to cause me to doubt that one person, uh I do not live in close enough proximity to them to know whether or not what they're saying is true. And given my experience with people in the world, there's a lot of uh prior evidence 0:07:54 - 0:08:19 that perhaps it's not true, but it has nothing to do with him. And so that remains to be seen. So my point is, it is quite possible that there are no people who have repented besides myself. And it is also even if that's not the case, I only know of one person. Now there may be people elsewhere who I 0:08:19 - 0:08:47 don't know because certainly I don't know everyone on this planet. But um I have reasons for doubting that as well. So the good news about this is that what comes after cannot come until there are people to receive it. This is extraordinarily important. Um a an eternal principle is that there are certain 0:08:46 - 0:09:12 laws that have to be lived before a certain situation can be inherited. So to give you a brief pseudo proof of this, consider the Hebrews in the desert, there were certain laws that they had to receive and live before they could inherit the promised land. And so it is that the way out of a lower condition 0:09:11 - 0:09:37 like slavery in Egypt does not mean that you immediately proceed into the higher situation of living in the promised land. There are conditions for situations, those conditions have to be fulfilled before you receive the blessings. This isn't like a uh go pick something up at the store and then pay for 0:09:37 - 0:10:05 it over time situation. That's not how the gospel works. You have to pay first. So the good news is that while there are no other people to receive those things, you still have the opportunity to become the person who receives those things. But this doesn't lower the price and it does not buy you time 0:10:05 - 0:10:30 in the sense that as soon as there is a people prepared to receive because they've received and lived, what's already here, the opportunity for you to receive those things has ended. Now, God gives uh he's impartial. It's very important. Justice is one of his prime characteristics. And so he has the 0:10:30 - 0:10:58 same conditions for the same outcomes and anyone who lives, those conditions will receive the same outcome. The issue is that conditions uh circumstances can change such that the required conditions are no longer possible to achieve. So in this case, we can simply say that the first group of people who 0:10:58 - 0:11:23 actually repents of all of their sins are the only first group of people who will actually repent of all of their sins. So a subsequent group who comes and does that will do so under different conditions and therefore will not be qualified for the same blessings as the first group. Now, what do I mean 0:11:23 - 0:11:49 by that? There are things that you can do when you are fully repentant that you cannot do until you are one of those is to teach with clarity and power that far exceeds anything. Any one else can, you will understand things that no one else understands. You will be able to receive things from God, which 0:11:49 - 0:12:15 includes that understanding that no one else can. You'll be able to teach with a level of sincerity that no one else can. You'll be able to see things and feel things that no one else can. You'll be able to do things that no one else can including mighty miracles. So what happens is as people rise up 0:12:15 - 0:12:40 to this level, the evidence is that this sort of thing exists and that the pathway that those people who have possessed, what they have traveled to get there exists and is true and all of that. So once that happens, it's impossible for anyone to walk down that same exact path, the path subsequent people 0:12:39 - 0:13:11 walk down will be easier because the evidence is that that path exists, the evidences of its bounds, its outcomes. The reasons are much greater. They're plainer, they're more abundant, an unavoidable eternal law is that the more evidence a person has beyond the minimum sufficient will reduce the blessings 0:13:10 - 0:13:41 they will receive for obeying it for believing it. And that's because everything God does is through faith. And the more knowledge you have, the less faith you can have. So the greatest faith lies in doing what you do based solely on your knowledge that it's God's will as you add in more and more, we'll 0:13:41 - 0:14:14 say visceral evidences of that same path. The amount of faith you can exercise reduces. And because of that, the quantity and intensity of the blessings you can receive for doing so reduces. So it's very important to rise up and do what you believe is. Right. Right now, I want to emphasize a point here 0:14:13 - 0:14:38 and to do that, I'm going to read a quote off of the back cover of this book. I wrote called Repentance Making Straight The Way of God. And uh this, I'm reading the back cover here. The final quote says, final paragraph says, this book describes the doctrine of repentance. Always do the best you can 0:14:38 - 0:15:10 imagine. Do everything you know, is right, do nothing, you know, is wrong and seek more truth with your whole being. So nothing in that admonition says anything about what any particular person tells you. It leaves the idea of what is best between you and God. It leaves the idea of what is right between 0:15:10 - 0:15:42 you and God. It leaves the idea of what is wrong between you and God. It leaves the idea of what is true between you and God. We can make a case that a better understanding of all those things is available through God and people that know Him better than you do. But we don't have to and we shouldn't 0:15:41 - 0:16:16 try to in making a case for you to start because all you have to do to start in this path to go through the gate is what you presently believe is right. Is true, is good. The fact that you are not doing those things is no one else's fault but yours. It has nothing to do with any one else but you and 0:16:16 - 0:16:49 that's why you alone are accountable for failing to do this. That's why in the times that are coming when God has reasons to change the mercy, he has poured out on this nation in particular. That is why He will be fully justified in removing all people who have not repented of their sins. And this will 0:16:49 - 0:17:20 happen a time is coming very soon where everyone who does not do what is right, all the time will not be allowed to remain here. Now, just to be clear to anyone that might be confused about what I'm saying, including any three letter agencies. I'm not speaking in any way of anything that any people will 0:17:19 - 0:17:59 do uh directly what I'm talking about is uh acts of God that are supernatural in nature and or have nothing to do with anyone here in particular as far as creating these events just to be clear. So that time, there's still time, but that time will come. And unfortunately, people have this terrible misconception 0:17:58 - 0:18:23 that somehow they can walk in the path of God in the ways of the world at the same time. Now, what I am not talking about here when I say the ways of the world, I'm not saying that to be the child of God. Someone has to go live in a tent in the woods or you know, run around naked and on the freeway or 0:18:23 - 0:18:48 something crazy like that with a sign saying the end is near, you can live in a house, you can have a job, you can have a family, you can do many things that look on the outside like normal things and be doing them for completely different reasons. What I'm saying is that you absolutely have to reconstruct 0:18:47 - 0:19:11 your life, tear it all down mentally and reconstruct it from the ground up in the name of Jesus Christ. That is completely accordant with his character as far as you understand it to be, meaning everything you do should be exactly what you believe he would do in your place and you shouldn't do anything 0:19:10 - 0:19:38 that you don't sincerely believe he would do in your place. I've written several books. I find great value in those books. That is a gross understatement. There have been others who also find great value in these books. I know about some of them, but I want to tell you very plainly whether you read this 0:19:38 - 0:20:03 book or not repentance by me, Robert Smith. It's on Amazon at print cost, you can get it for free at upward thought.blogspot.com. If you want a PDF or you can listen to the audio book for free on this channel. It's a playlist. So you can find that easily if you do not do what this book says to do. And 0:20:02 - 0:20:33 uh most of it quotes scripture. Uh So th those indentations are long quotes from scripture and every single page you'll see is full of scriptures. If you do not do what this book says to do nothing else matters. Because what you can receive from God while continuing in an unrepentant state is nothing 0:20:32 - 0:21:00 compared to what you could receive. Were you to repent in times past? It was sufficient to just sort of clown around and rummage through the garbage of the remnants of God's truth that were scattered on the surface of the earth. That time has ended. It's time to actually enter into the way of God to 0:21:00 - 0:21:26 enter the gate by repenting of all of your sins. You have every tool needed to do this. God is in full control of your understanding. What that means. We talked before about what you understand to be good, true and right, all of that has already passed through a filter from God where he has certified 0:21:25 - 0:00:00 your capability to conform to those things that he has placed in your conscience. If you follow that, your conscience is the voice of God directly to you perfectly fitted to you, to your circumstances, to your capabilities, to your understanding. If you follow that with all of your heart. I promise, 0:00:00 - 0:22:23 I promise that as you do that and as you click into that state, as you become reconciled to him, and after you have become reconciled to him, he will open a world of greater understanding of Him, greater joy, greater peace, greater confidence, greater good. Then you can possibly understand right now 0:22:23 - 0:23:02 . I've dedicated an immense amount of time and an indescribable amount of effort to receiving from God wisdom instructions and other blessings that will greatly facilitate the journey of other people towards Him. None of those things will help anyone who has not yet repented of all of their sins. This 0:23:01 - 0:23:32 is the gate as difficult as it may seem to become sinless. It is the very first step towards God. It's not the final step. It's not the middle step. There's no such thing as trying to repent. There's no such thing as working on repenting you do it or you don't do it. God has already given you every reason 0:23:31 - 0:23:56 to do it. You haven't listened to those reasons. And that's why He's arranged for one of his servants to reach out to you to tell you the things that are plain from the scriptures that you have removed yourself from understanding and believing through your willful disobedience. But as you read these 0:23:55 - 0:24:22 things, he will give you a second chance. He will give you a boost of His spirit to your mind, to your heart to your understanding and you will desire to follow him more than you have till now in your life, as you heed that voice and as you turn in towards him and do everything he tells you to do and 0:24:22 - 0:24:51 do nothing that you don't believe he would do in your place. You will enter into his gate and he will reveal more of himself to you. There is no other way. Nothing else that you can do. No amount of studying whatever your pet gospel topic is, no amount of doing any other thing. Nothing is going to magically 0:24:50 - 0:25:23 make this process easier or alleviate you from the responsibility to choose to follow God with all your heart. The choice is yours. You've been given everything necessary to make it. And until you do, you are not qualified and you cannot receive anything more from God. The time is short and what is coming 0:25:22 - 0:25:49 shortly will far exceed anything that you know, of both in terms of the consequences that are coming for the many people who have turned away from such a plain call from God that has exceeded any kind of specific religious language. And what I'm speaking of is that this nation in particular has been 0:25:49 - 0:26:21 doused in opportunity and unmerited wealth and prosperity and no one here has reacted as required to comply with God's laws of justice. He was merciful for a very long time for his reasons that he has. And now those those things are all coming to a close. Now. That's the doom and gloom side of things 0:26:20 - 0:26:51 . The flip side of this is that because of the fulfillment of specified preconditions, God will pour out upon this nation, a blessing that lies far beyond anything that anyone here can imagine right now, to qualify for that, you have to repent of all your sins. So, in summary, to be crystal clear, nothing 0:26:50 - 0:27:20 I have said here has anything to do with me. What I've said here is absolutely true. No matter who I am or am not, no matter what I know or do not know, no matter what I have experienced or have not experienced, you know, that these things are true. You have the opportunity to reply to God in repentance 0:27:19 - 0:27:49 or not. And the consequences will come to you whether for good or whether for evil, there's only so much that can be said about these things. I've not yet said everything I can or everything I will. But with each thing I say, I make it impossible to say things in such a brief, clear way. It's already 0:27:48 - 0:28:16 been done. There are few things more that I'll say on this topic, but they'll, they'll require pulling in other topics as well and that will probably be limited to print. So the signal has been emitted and now will be the time you get to decide how to respond. The time is short and soon the only people 0:28:15 - 0:28:51 that will be receiving more are those who can join with me by sincerely proclaiming, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I only do what he would do in my place. I never do what he would not do in my place. This is the gate. I stand at the gate and I'm calling you to enter it, but Jesus is the gate and it's 0:28:51 - 0:29:07 his voice that you will have to personally obey as he defines for you and to you directly through your conscience. What is good? What is true? What is right? And what leads to him?