There is No Room For Victims or Cowards in the Kingdom of Heaven

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”-Revelation 21:8

Today is a heavy subject, I admit, but it is one that I know needs to be said. We live in an age where victimization is exploited by the rich and powerful to keep people under control. If you’re a Christian, and you’re convicted by the Spirit and the Scriptures and live by those convictions, they label you as a terrorist, a nationalist, a fundamentalist (and several other “ists” besides!) or a slew of other names. Nowadays, it’s popular to silence Christians by claiming you’re being political about Spiritual issues, when the world is trying to lay claim to Spiritual issues as being political! Christians are being silenced because they know little of the Scriptures, or lack conviction in following them, preferring to be nice and silent when Satan is running rampant! Note this: the name “Satan” means accuser, and he WILL use those in his sway to accuse us if we let him!

There is no room for victims in the Kingdom of Heaven. No, Scripture says “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”(Romans 8:37). I say this, as harsh as it sounds, because if you’re a victim who claims to follow Christ, then there’s no victory in Him in your life! And I’m not speaking to one who is a victim of a crime, crimes should be reported, and justice should be done; I’m speaking to people who never let go of the hurt, the pain, the sin and the sorrow of their lives, blaming everyone and everything else for their current conditions. Cowards are just as bad, if not worse! They will agree with Jesus, feel conviction of Jesus, but hide the moment that their conviction is called to account. They will try to “Blend in” with the world that hates them, appease the enemy to keep him off of their back, and even turn on their fellow believers to save their own skins. This does not mean that victims and cowards cannot be redeemed, the blood of Christ can do anything, but it means that something has to change, and it starts with us!

Loved ones, if we’re to have a true faith that works, it must be a faith, not merely worth living for, but one that is worth dying for. Jesus’ convictions led Him to the Cross, and ours should too! We should be willing to stand on, live by and die for God’s word, and God’s ways, under the blood of Jesus’ Christ, and by the Power of the Holy Spirit. That is what the Bible means when you hear the word “Believe.” Otherwise, we’re just merely acknowledging that God exists, and even the demons do that, as they tremble.

John 14:15-17

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.”

Ephesians 2:8-10

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

James 2:14-26

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.