“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the ‘Temple’ of God, and he shall go no more out; and I will ‘write’ upon him the ‘name’ of my God, and the name of the city of my God which is the ‘new’ Jerusalem, which cometh down out of ‘heaven’ from my God; and I will write upon him my new name.” Commentary: When does identity theft happen? When someone does something bad in your name! Lucifer became Satan! His name change was due to a change of character! We should do good things in the name of Jesus! We are not stealing his identity we are using his name with his power associated with his name to make the world a better place! What are we to overcome? Sin and the temptation to trust the world rather than Christ! ! We can only overcome in the name of Jesus! Christ takes our sin and paid the price for it! Death on a Cross! What is the Temple? The Temple is the habitation of God! Where he dwells! He shall no more go out! Evangelism has now been completed! The door is shut for any more redemption! Time shall be no more! Time means to honor! Honor to God here on earth has been complete The earth and heaven have become one as was intended in the Garden of Eden! The Lord’s prayer for us on earth as it is in heaven! The word “write” means engraved! Like the ten Commandments engraved into the stone with the finger of God! Jesus flesh was engraved with scars from the punishment for our sin! He became engraved so we could escape the grave! He has promised to raise us from the grave! Righteous and Holy! Forgiven not forsaken! Sacrificial love for the lost men! The word “new” means new in quality! Superior to the old Jerusalem! Heaven used here means all of his creation! Including earth, sun, moon, stars, sea, forests, clouds, rain, creatures small and great and man himself! To support the work of the Christian church is to reflect the likeness of God and his heavenly citizenship! His power Christ will be revealed to you in your hour of need! Christ with no beginning and no end will raise all from the dead! Some to everlasting life and some to eternal judgment! It all depends what you do with the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross for you! He took your judgment of death upon himself! Accept the sacrifice or take your own judgment! Forgiven sinners in heaven and unforgiven sinners in hell! You make the choice! Christ does not mean immunity from trouble but strength in the trial and the conflict! Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world! In this world Satan wars against the church but we prefer faith in Christ the unseen world over the seen world! We prefer the future to the present! The Christian life is always in conflict with the world! We have overcome the world through the strength and power of Christ! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
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Why a High Wall in Heaven? Revelation 21:12,14,17,18,19,27.
Commentary: There are 12 gates attached to the walls in the New Heaven and the New earth! Why? These are controlled entry points screening people for what? The Democrats say we do not need borders for our nation yet they themselves have high walls surrounding their million dollar mansions? They will just let illegals pour into your neighborhood with diseases, poverty and crime by the millions? A wall is good for them but not for you? Life must have boundaries! Sin is going past the boundaries God has established for our safety! Did you know our lips are boundaries in regards to what we say! Do you praise God with your lips? Verse 27 explains the reason for the walls and the gates! “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” You can only get into heaven the legal way! No illegal immigrants in heaven! You must come by the blood of the Lamb! Jesus fulfills the law by taking your penalty of death upon himself at the Cross! You are pardoned and a legal citizen of heaven! A gate on a wall is a controlled entry point! Twelve gates on the walls of the new heaven and the new earth! They become one as intended in the Garden of Eden! When I get to heaven will I have it made? You can rebel against God in heaven just like Lucifer did! We like the angels are created beings with a free will and choices! How do you get your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life! Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior! How do you get your name blotted out of the Lamb’s Book of Life! Reject Jesus whether on earth or in heaven! These gates are check points where your name is reviewed in the Book of Life to be sure your entry is authorized as a worshiper of Christ and no rebellion has entered into your life against Christ! I wish once saved always saved were true theology but you look at the whole Bible we are saved by grace yet we can reject his grace yet the Holy Spirit keeps us safe from the same mistake Lucifer made! Christ in relationship to you establishes us and prevents the betrayal of him as done by Judas and lucifer who became Satan! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
No Risk It! No Biscuit! Revelation 3:8
“I know thy works, behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it, for though hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and has not denied my name.” Commentary: Works! This word translates not just one act but an accumulation of acts! The Book of Acts! Faith without works is dead! What is this open door? Access to heaven! To have the time left in your life to preach the Gospel to the whole world! To your community where you live! To your neighbor! To the clerk at Walmart! Access to heaven through his word and prayer! When danger comes you can go to Jesus in prayer! You can thank him for those victories over Satan! There is power in the name of Jesus! Jesus is with you through every challenge and every danger! All things work together for good! He will be in the fiery furnace with you! Why did the church in Philadelphia have just a little strength? Perhaps from persecution from Rome? In my weakness I find his perfect strength! David found this out with Goliath! The widow fed Elijah! The widow gave more to the offering than all the rich men! She gave all she had! Are you giving your all for Christ? Are you risking today for the promises of tomorrow? This church kept his word! They called sin out as described in his word! They trusted his promises! Today was surrendered for the promises of the future! His word is the mind, will and purposes of God for you! They did not deny his name! No happy holidays but Merry Christmas! They did not fear the Christ in Christmas or deny his name! The reward to the believer is the open door to heaven! He closes the door on the foolish! An open door to Christ brings revelation! The purposes of God are established in you! He shows you things to come that no man can see! You become prophetic! The hidden sins of men are exposed! He protects you from the evil one! We rest under the shadow of his wings! Persecuted yet protected! Despised and rejected yet welcomed by the Father! At peace with God while the world wars with him! Secure in his love! Eternal life! Eternity began for me when 47 years ago I received Jesus the eternal God as my Savior! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
The Hindu Priest! Matthew 6:33
If God can speak through a donkey he can speak through anyone! My wife Hamsa was a young widow living in India with her two small boys in 1965. I was a sophomore in high school in 1965. Her future looked bleak there with not much hope of a future! One day a Hindu Priest came to her door and told her he had a prophetic word for her future! She was reluctant to listen for she was a Christian not an idol worshiper! The prophecy was this:” In two years you will go to America! You will meet a God sent man to you and marry and you will have two more children, two girls that will complete your family! Your God, your Christ tells me this and reveals these things to you!” In 1967 Hamsa was on an airliner traveling from India to America! She put a fleece out before the Lord and said whoever this man is the first thing he will do when we meet is invite me to church! Many men invited her to the movies, dinner, dances and other social functions in those subsequent years. I had just completed college in Denver in 1972 and honestly went to college to avoid the Vietnam war! My prayer was for the Lord to send the right person into my life! Read Matthew 6:33. Both of us were asking God to find us a spouse! In 1972 I invited Hamsa to church the first time I ever met her! A God arranged marriage is a lasting marriage that will stand the test of time! Let God arrange your life not only in marriage but ever aspect of your life! Put him in your driver’s seat and he will guide you safely home! By the way I joined the military in 1975. James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
God Will Prosper You Even in Captivity!
No Denial in Philadelphia! Revelation 3:7
“And to the angel (pastor) of the Church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.” Commentary: If you are holy and true before God and men you will never deny the name of Jesus! You will always confess him and proclaim him before men! Peter had a denial problem but then confessed him even unto his martyrdom. Jesus hates political correctness! No Happy Holidays here but to proclaim the Christ in Christmas! The world will try to silence you about your Christ using intimidation tactics! I do not wear my religion on my sleeve? Jesus if you have him lives on your inside! I would be a Christian were it not for a Christian? Fact is only Jesus can save you no Christian can! Our job is to point people to the Savior! They must come the same way we have come! Whatever is on our inside comes out on the outside! Faith, love, hope, redemption, forgiveness, peace, faithfulness, prophecy, power, judgment and the resurrection from the dead! In America they will tell you he is a white man’s religion? Wrong! Jesus is from the Middle East! His message spread across Europe and finally to America! Jesus is a brown or olive skinned man! Jesus said I knock at the door! If you let me in I will commune with you! I will encourage you and save you from your sin! If you shut the door on me no man will be able to save you! You will be lost forever! Jesus is knocking at your door! Will you answer his call? Are you too busy? Did you hang up on God? If you answer his call your life will be changed in a way you could never do on your own! It is called grace! By grace you are saved and not of yourselves! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
Jesus Makes a Confession About You? Revelation 3:5
“He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white rainment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.” Commentary: Some Saints at the Church at Sardis get their names mentioned as honorable mention to the Father by Jesus! Some get their names blotted out of the book of life! Do you confess Jesus daily from your lips at work or at home? In the market place where you go? Are you ashamed of him? If his name is never on your lips your name will never be on his lips! Jesus has to be more than a cuss word to you! Do you hear his words once a week but never speak his words? In any church some will go to heaven and some will not! When the Saints go marching in I want to be in that number! How about you? Surely my church membership is enough? No organization or denomination can save you! No Pastor can save you! His job and your job is to point people to the Savior! No amount of money given to a ministry can save you! Only Jesus can save you! There is only one road into heaven but many roads out of heaven! I have decided to follow Jesus as the old hymn says written in India! Everyone will follow someone but only the name of one will lead you to heaven! Eternal life comes under only one name! A name above every name! Jesus Christ! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
Church at Sardis! Revelation 3:3
“Remember therefore how thou has received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shall not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shall not know what hour I will come upon thee.” Commentary: Christ will judge his church! Judgement begins at the House of God! He will come unknown to some! His stealth footsteps unknown to the perishing! Some in the church would not repent! Sin not forsaken with hypocracy and the decay of sterile religion! It was a church in the form of Godliness yet no power! A dead church! Buried but never resurrected! Jesus called them to be watchful against their enemies and to be active and sincere in their duties dependent upon the Holy Spirit to revive and strengthen their faith and affection living for God alone! Jesus did make mention of a few faithful at the Sardis Church! Surely those members are written down in the Book of Life! We are to live for God with all the evil that surrounds us! As Jesus supplies our strength to endure to the end we through his grace snatch the deceived out of the jaws of Satan! Stay faithful in the midst of an unfaithful generation! Choose good over evil! Proclaim his good news in the midst of all the bad news! Proclaim his love for the world that has rejected him without cause! Stay faithful and true to Christ and his church! Is your name written down in the Book of Life? Only Christ and you know for sure! If not repent as Christ asked the Church at Sardis to do! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
One Name Above All Names! Revelation 2:26
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations.” Commentary: Christ who came to die will come again to reign! We who are united with Christ today will reign with him tomorrow! We can never rest unless we work! A good work here on earth yet a nobler work to be done in heaven! He gives us authority because of his conquering rule! Might is not right but right is might! We are so identified with him that he shares his possessions with us! The bride is endowed with the wealth of the bridegroom! Our crowns are because of his Cross! He is the morning star because of his royal dominion! The Saints share in the judgment of the nations with Christ! The Arabic Bible version reads; “and keepeth my words and my works.” Our doctrine and works need to agree! He has power over Gentiles and their pagan worship rescuing them from the deceptions of Satan! The Gospel is the power of God weakening the Kingdom of Satan! What is our Christian vocation? The Messianic conquest of the entire world! Conquer in His Name! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
False Teachers! Revelation 2:20
Commentary: False teachers in the church at Thyatia in the first century are the same problem we have in the 21st century church today! Jesus warned us there would come many false teachers driving people away from Christ! In life we can do ten things right and one thing wrong and it wipes out all the good things we have done! This is why it is so important to get Christ right because then you can recover from all your sin!`He took your sin upon himself and paid the price of death on a Cross for you! If we trust ourselves we will fail! In the Old Testament or what I like to call the 1st Testament Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab. She was an influence for evil! She even had a man killed to get his property! She was a idol worshiper of Baal. Remember in idol worship you will always make yourself God! Whether Hinduism, Islam, atheism or any other religion. Let me explain! I spent a number of years in India. I would ask the Hindus who God was? They have millions of idols! They would tell me God is who you create him to be in your mind! I would say my Bible says God created man! Just the opposite! I asked many Muslims there how do you get to heaven? They told me they must die for God through becoming a martyr! I told them my Bible says God died for us! Just the opposite! They make themselves God! God created man in his own image! Yet they make God in their own image! Just the opposite! Heaven and hell are opposites! Jezebel used her power and influence to do evil! What are you doing with your resources? Are you promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ? The dogs ate Jezebel but her spirit lived on in the 1st Century church and even today opposing Christ! There are many good women preachers in the church today but your only defense from error is to know your Bible! Any ideology or religious doctrine that says there is another way to God than through Christ is a heresy! Jesus commended this church in some ways but also disciplined them in their doctrinal error! He does the same with us as the Holy Spirit will put a check in our spirit when we deviate from the truth! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com