I Love My Attorney

After living what I felt was a ‘decent’ life, my time on earth came to the end.

The first thing I remember is sitting on a bench in the waiting room of what I thought to be a court house.

The doors opened and I was instructed to come in and have a seat by the defense table.

As I looked around I saw the ‘prosecutor’.

He was a villainous looking gent who snarled as he stared at me.  He definitely was the most evil person I have ever seen.

I sat down and looked to my left and there sat My Attorney, a kind and gentle looking man whose appearance seemed so familiar to me, I felt I knew Him.

The corner door flew open and there appeared the Judge in full flowing robes.

He commanded an awesome presence as He moved across the room, and I couldn’t take my eyes off Him.

As He took His seat behind the bench, He said, “Let us begin.”

The prosecutor rose and said,

“My name is Satan and I am here to show you why this woman belongs in hell…”

He proceeded to tell of lies that I told, things that I stole, and In the past when I cheated others Satan told of other horrible Perversions that were once in my life and the more he spoke, the further down in my seat I sank.

I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t look at anyone, even my own Attorney, as the Devil told of sins that even I had completely forgotten about.

As upset as I was at Satan for telling all these things about me, I was equally upset at My Attorney who sat there silently not Offering any form of defense at all.

I know I had been guilty of those things, but I had done some good in my life – couldn’t that at least equal out part of the harm I’d done?

Satan finished with a fury and said, ‘This woman belongs in hell, she is guilty of all that I have charged and there is not a person who can prove otherwise.”

When it was His turn, My Attorney first asked if He might approach the bench. The Judge allowed this over the strong objection of Satan, and beckoned Him to come forward.

As He got up and started walking, I was able to see Him in His full splendour and majesty.

I realised why He seemed so familiar; this was Jesus representing me, my Lord and my Saviour.

He stopped at the bench and softly said to the Judge, “Hi, Dad,” and then He turned to address the court.

“Satan was correct in saying that this woman had sinned, I won’t deny any of these allegations.  And, yes, the wages of sin is death, and this woman deserves to be punished.”

Jesus took a deep breath and turned to His Father with outstretched arms and proclaimed, “However, I died on the cross so that this person might have eternal life and she has accepted Me as her Saviour, so she is Mine.”

My Lord continued with, “Her name is written in the Book of Life,  and no one can snatch her from Me.

Satan still does not understand yet.  This woman is not to be given justice, but rather mercy.”

As Jesus sat down,

He quietly paused, looked at His Father and said, “There is nothing else that needs to be done. I’ve done it all.”

The Judge lifted His mighty hand and slammed the gavel down..  The following words bellowed from His lips..

“This woman is free. The penalty for her has already been paid in full. Case dismissed.”

As my Lord led me away, I could hear Satan ranting and raving, “I won’t give up, I will win the next one.” I asked Jesus, as He gave me my instructions where to go next, “Have you ever lost a case?”

Christ lovingly smiled and said,

“Everyone that has come to Me and asked Me to represent them has received the same verdict as you,

~Paid In Full~”

Stop telling God how big your storm is.
Instead, tell the storm how big your God is!

Run that You may Obtain

Pastor Q preaches an excellent sermon, and we are extremely blessed to have a church where we can be taught well of the things of God. These are my study notes from this morning’s sermon, and they are not a patch on the sermon itself. Unfortunately, when I was at business college, I couldn’t see the value in studying shorthand, but it sure would have come in handy right about now – God knew what I would have need of, even if I didn’t! I have missed almost as much as I have transcribed, but I hope that it will bless you as much as the sermon blessed us this morning. We travel about 150 kilometres to church each week, but it’s worth it to be able to hear the Word preached well.

Bible Verses:

Blessed is the man that perseveres under trial, for when people endure, they will receive the Crown of Life. What are we required to do? Persevere, and we will be blessed. Being blessed is more than being happy – it is about that spiritual joy that occurs in the heart. Jesus went to the Calvary for the joy of the cross. Do you think that Jesus really enjoyed what God asked Him to do? No, but He did it for the joy of the cross.

The picture in James 1:12 is of a winner of a race receiving the crown of glory, but the crown we receive is of eternal life. Picture yourself victorious with the crown of life – can you really picture yourself like that? That is how God is seeing you right now.

There are televisions that have PIP, which is where you can have one screen showing, and another screen as well. Picture yourself as the top screen and God’s screen is the bottom one – what God sees is the real you, and the top screen is how you see yourself, but God’s screen shows us victorious, which is sometimes not how we see ourselves, and if we can’t see God’s screen of ourselves, we only see our own perspective.

We try to do things in our own strength, but we should trust God and persevere through to the other side. You are not meant to understand everything, only that God calls you to persevere. God told Eve that she could eat of any tree in the Garden of Eden, but of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Eve knew what God wanted her to do, but she began to doubt when Satan planted thoughts into Eve’s mind, saying that she would not surely die, but her eyes would be opened and that she would be like God, knowing good and evil. Eve was tempted because she wanted to know what God knew. The trap is that you need to understand the mind of God.

There are seasons of hardness and easiness. We need to be in the position where our first response is a spiritual response, rather than a human response. Then we feel guilty, and that is Satan’s infiltration. Our first response, if we have someone do something wrong to us, is to criticise.

A certain prominent female politician attended a vehicle accident, and when she was there, the person in the car needed medical attention before the ambulance crew arrived, so she went into doctor mode, which was her previous profession. Note that she went into doctor mode – interesting, isn’t it, that when she was under pressure that she went into doctor mode??? We need to go into Christian mode when things go wrong.

There are seven main points for a Christian to remember, and they are:

1. Refuse to give in to wrong thoughts – guard your mind. There’s an old saying, “Garbage in, garbage out”, and this means that if you take garbage into your mind, that is exactly what you will get out of it. Be disciplined and determined – don’t entertain wrong thoughts about yourself or others. Note that I said, “Don’t entertain wrong thoughts” because that is exactly what Satan is getting you to do. The devil will put wrong thoughts into your mind, but what you do with them is your responsibility. Protect your mind!
2. Resist the temptation to psychoanalyse yourself. If you do, you’ll see all of your failures, but that’s not how God sees you. If He didn’t love me, would He have sent His Son to die on the cross for me? When God wants you to change anything in your life, He will reveal Himself to you.
3. Fight by using God’s Word. You can have no more powerful weapon than God’s Word. Jesus used God’s Word to defeat Satan when He was tempted, but you need to know what it says.
4. Listen to God – God speaks to you in a still, small voice that only you can hear. God wants to speak to you, but you need to let Him in the busyness of your life.
5. Be willing to move to a higher level of faith. Expect God to respond to a higher level of faith, and He will, as you step out in faith.
6. Get your life into proper alignment with God – this can only be found in God’s Word. This needs to be a part of your daily routine. We need to be lined up with God’s plumbline.
7. Understand and accept the place that you are in right now. When you know that what I am being put through is a part of your eternal destiny, life becomes easier. You need to place your life into perspective with the eternal crown of life that is promised to you.

When the going gets tough, God blesses you abundantly.

Run that you may receive the ultimate reward:

the

Crown of Life

and

eternity in heaven with God.