As we face a deeply troubled world on the precipice of Armageddon it is essential to remember who we are in Christ. We are a Holy Sanctuary. The moment we surrender our life to Jesus Christ as Lord, the Holy Spirit enters the throne room of our hearts to begin the transformation process. This process will continue for our entire life on planet Earth. It is a process often described in the Bible as growing spiritually from one degree of glory to another (II Corinthians 3:18). Dear children, please remember that we are constantly in a state of spiritual growth, or we are slipping back into the ways of the fallen world run by the powers of darkness. It is essential to remember that we were not created to be stuck in a static personality or given a label by the counselors of psychology. The whole world is being labeled, drugged, and counseled for the rest of their lifetime by the spiritual powers of darkness. Today, we will learn again that as a Christian and faithful follower of Jesus Christ, we have been made into a new creation where old things are passing away, and behold all things have become new (II Corinthians 5:17). Embracing this biblical truth will put you back on the path of God making you into a Holy Sanctuary. As we shall soon discover being God’s Holy Sanctuary is our only sure defense against all of God’s wrath falling upon an unrepentant world. It is our only sure defense for standing against the whiles of the devil and his powers of darkness.

We are a Holy Sanctuary. The first step is to ensure that we have allowed Jesus Christ to take His rightful place on the throne in the throne room of our hearts (John 14). We wrote extensively about this in my last article. Today we will go deeper by asking ourselves what are we exposing Christ to, through the indwelling Spirit, as He sits upon our throne. Let’s take our time and walk carefully through this question one step at a time. Let’s begin with our thoughts. If Christ, through the Holy Spirit, is really sitting on the throne of your heart, then He is exposed to your every thought. Think about that. Every thought. As we sit alone or even with others the mind is always thinking. We talked before about our vain imaginations that can consume our thinking for hours on end. Vain imaginings are often carried away by our desires and fantasies that go well beyond the reality of what Christ has planned for our lives. They often border on the malicious, the lawless, and sexual fantasy. The whole world has been led by the powers of darkness to enhance your vain imaginations through Hollywood movies, YouTube videos, and social media Reels. Again everything you watch or listen to is designed to enhance your vain imaginations and invites Christ to participate as He sits upon the throne in your heart. Our beautiful minds designed by God can also become trapped into thinking the same things over, and over again causing us to spiral further and further away from God and not being His Holy Sanctuary.

Essentially there are two traps of thinking that you can easily fall into, causing us think about something endlessly and even repeat it to others, time and again. The first trap is our unwillingness to truly forgive others. When we do, then it will stay in our minds to be dwelled upon indefinitely. Let that sink in. How do we know if we have truly forgiven someone who has wronged us? That’s simple. If we have truly forgiven them, then we will eventually forget it, if we use the three principles of forgiveness. First, we must no longer bring up the offense to the offending person. Secondly, we never bring up the offense to others, often done to garner their sympathy. Thirdly, and this is the most difficult, we never think about the offense but cast it out of our minds immediately, less than a millisecond. Again, dear children, all these thoughts go before Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit sitting on the throne in the throne room of your hearts. Because of our failure to forgive others, then God will not forgive us (Matthew 6:14-15). The Holy Sanctuary becomes tarnished allowing us to partake of God’s chastisement and suffer the depravity of missing out on so many of His wonderful blessings (Hebrews 12:6-8). The greatest motivation in truly forgiving others that leads to forgetfulness is keeping those horrific thoughts from our loving God by not allowing Him to participate in them.

The second trap that most believers fall into is being trapped in the past and specifically the deep valleys that we had encountered. I call this a trap because most will never forget the horrific valleys by repeating them again and again for many years. Because these stories have been repeated so often they tend to change over the years driving many into a deeper pit of depression. It can even cause anger at God or doubt His ability to make them into a brand-new creation where old things truly pass away. So, how do we get out of these traps set by the devil that keeps many in a static personality and not growing spiritually from one degree of glory to another? If you are stuck in the past you will never become all that God wants you to be. Therefore, the first thing we need to do is remove the scars. Simply put, you turn the scars into the loving providence of God (Romans 8:28). Instead of constantly thinking about the horrible pit and its debilitating effect upon us, we think about the lessons we learned and God’s amazing deliverance from the pit often caused by our own careless decisions. Memorize the previous sentence, which will remove the scars from the valley and replace it with an amazing testimony for Jesus Christ.

Yes, dear children the valleys are lessons to be learned often caused by making our own decisions instead of listening to Christ who should be sitting on the throne in your heart. But if we remove the scars and erase the old, tarnished memories by replacing them with God’s deliverance and anointed lessons, then we can construct a beautiful testimony to the glory of God. The Apostle Paul often did that causing the Spirit to write them in the Holy Bible (Acts 22:6-21). In each instance, the Apostle only briefly highlighted his difficulty but immediately stressed the deliverance by the risen Lord, Jesus Christ, which always led him into the Gospel and its amazing benefits through faith. The valleys were never magnified and repeated over and over, rather he always stressed the loving providence of God. He often stressed that when he was weak that through Christ he would become strong (II Corinthians 12:10). As we face uncertain days ahead, we cannot be stuck in lukewarmness being controlled by the powers of darkness, but we must turn our valleys into peaks by stressing God’s providential deliverance. Our lessons simply become our very short testimony leading us into the powerful Gospel of Jesus Christ. When we do, then we are a Holy Sanctuary with Jesus Christ on the throne. This is our only sure defense in the days ahead when the world completely falls apart.

Finally, as a Holy Sanctuary with Christ on the throne we not only guard our thoughts and memories, but we guard our eyes and ears. Yes, remember everything you watch or listen to will also be seen and heard by the Lord sitting on the throne of your heart. Now, I know most Christians don’t think about this as they face a troubled world. So, when they watch their silly little videos or watching movies endorsing perversions, the Bible says it grieves the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30). When we grieve the Holy Spirit it does two things that will greatly impact our walk with Christ or our transformation in Christ. It will immediately cause the Spirit to weep and secondly, it will cause Him to withdraw from participating in your godless activity. Dear children, just because the lukewarm church has allowed the perversions to enter their doors, it doesn’t give us the liberty to bring the perversions before Christ sitting on the throne of our hearts. Let us be the Holy Sanctuary that Christ has created us to be. Listen to the angel and come out from among them so that we will not receive the plagues falling on humanity (Revelation 18:4-5). When you become the Holy Sanctuary then you will experience the greatest heavenly blessings of love and simplicity. You will also receive all the protection from the Father of Lights that holds everything together (James 1:17; Colossians 1:17, ESV). Please, dear children, let me encourage you today to be a Holy Sanctuary for the risen Lord through Holy Spirit. Amen

The Gospel Presentation

We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, which explains the many difficulties that you are currently facing in your life. Well, I have good news, God has solved that problem by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who was born of a virgin to show us the way to a beautiful new life in Christ. God has dealt with all of our sins past, present, and future by having His son pay the debt for our sins. Jesus Christ willingly went to the Cross in our stead by allowing all of the world’s sins to be placed upon Him as a sacrificial Lamb. As Christ hung on the Cross, the wrath of God was poured out on Him to pay the penalty for our sins. Jesus Christ died on the Cross and was buried for three days. On the third day, Christ arose from death to life everlasting. The good news is if we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then we will be forgiven for all of our sins and receive the Holy Spirit. The Spirit will lead us into all truth helping us in the transformation process of putting off the old life, allowing the old sin nature to die with Christ, and then putting on our new life in Christ by being raised with Christ to everlasting life. You can accept Christ today by confessing your sins to Him through a simple prayer asking Him to forgive you and make you into a new creation filled with the Holy Spirit. If you have done that, then you have just begun the greatest journey of your life that leads to heaven and eternal life. Welcome to the Kingdom.

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