Deep Calls to Deep

Death is inevitable, and God wants you. He doesn’t want just your livelihood, your ideas, or some of your time;

You are either all-in or you are not His.

We all have goals in life. We pick the career, or our work picks us as we go along with the flow of what we are good at, or even just what is available. Then we try and choose many things, but, as you get along, you start to realize you don’t control much. We may choose whom we marry, or even whether we ever do. We may decide where to live, or we at least accept where we are as ‘good enough’. But, when you hear the Gospel of Jesus something happens you do not expect: When you HEAR the Message you realize you must choose. When you really hear the Truth you realize something completely unexpected; That God wants YOU, all-in, no holds barred.

Note I said “HEAR” here? Sadly there are many false converts who were allowed to embrace rescue without repentance; Led to tragically believe they can come to God on their own terms. Their doubly damned souls will be a testament to this error.
May God correct all who engage in this deadly practice of preaching this false Gospel of salvation without fruits of repentance.

In His Scripture Jesus, The WORD of God Himself, says, “You must be born again” (KJV), or “born anew” (WMB), or, as many have translated what He said, “born from above” (YLT), there in John chapter 3, verse 3.

Jesus had replied to Nicodemus, a leader of Israel, who had acknowledged Jesus as being from God:

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again*, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Note that the word “born again” Jesus used here was also translated “born anew” and “born from above”, depending on the context. And clearly “born again” is correct, as translated here. As later this is used as “born anew”, in verse 7, the reference of being born new. As the conversation goes on here, Jesus explains, using this birth reference, that YHWH wants to make you so different you are not even the same person, as if you are made new, a Spirit man, the “born anew” version of that word. This is a typical Rabbinical turn of phrase Rabbis use to make a point, and Jesus used that same lingual trick, taking that one word and using it a different way, to drive home the point. And ,in this way, I believe Jesus was speaking to a deep part of Nicodemus; Jesus using that trick of language to tell Nicodemus He knew him. I can imagine Nicodemus smiling as Jesus replied, as Nicodemus recognized that Rabbinical turn of phrase method:

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew*’…”

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

…when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly…

The lost are born once and die twice, but the Saved are born twice and die only once, never to die again!

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Heaven or Hell?
www.HowWillYouDo.org answers this question for you.

To be a Christian is to reject all you are and nail it to the Cross of Christ:

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, ‘Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.’

To die to self, to, “let him deny himself”, you must be willing to follow God as not just the source of your rescue, deliverance from the Hell you so justly deserve, but God must be your MASTER; To “take up the Cross” is to walk up the Hill of Calvary, expecting to die badly, on that which you carry, as Y’Shua Himself did for us all, all of us who will entrust ourselves to Him.

You must give your ALL to Him, that’s why He says to count the cost!

Think about it. Jesus must decide where you go, Jesus must determine what you do with your life, And Jesus must be whom says you do or do not marry. God the Father IS, and there is no other, and He says of Jesus (Y’Shua as his mother Mary called him),

This is my beloved Son, hear Him.

So, HEAR Jesus, let “deep call to deep”, l-i-s-t-e-n to Jesus only:

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Patrick J Burwell, Minister, OnlyJesusSaves.org

*Not in the original text, the bold and italics is my emphasis and mine alone