I know that there are some who will say that they will not have anything to do with this fellow Jesus, or with the Bible. You might not be a believer today. And you would never believe for one minute that you could become one of his believers. Yet, neither you or I can say what will be tomorrow. Somewheres tomorrow you may find themselves as a soldier in the army of the Yawah. You might not imagine it is so. Yet, somewheres ahead, you who are the unbeliever today, may somewheres ahead be a soldier in the army of the Great King. If he wants you, you will be there and you might say today that it never will be so. He is greater than you are.
I will tell you this. No true believer gets out of doing military service in the kingdom. Everyone is a soldier in the army of the King. There is no such thing as a sissified Christian either: there is no such creature. There are no effeminate sorts in the ranks of the kingdom. You are real men and you are soldiers. We all have stands to make and battles to fight and if you are not in the battle, and not on the front lines then I can say that you who are suppose to be a believer either haven't been called yet to the service or else; you are a make believers and hence not true Citizens of the Kingdom. We are the soldiers on the white horses in Revelations 19 and you have to be a soldier here and now in this world; to be one of those riders. You have to fight the fight of righteousness and do battle with wickedness. You must battle with the evil here and now.
And so, no one gets out of military service in the army of the King. In the new city New Jerusalem. Not just any old thing can enter the gates. There are always soldiers on duty there and always will be. There are always soldiers of his in heaven and here on earth. If you are to be a Citizen of that heavenly city and that heavenly kingdom, then you have to be soldiers of his here in this world.
You have to fight the battles and not put on an electronic light show staged theatric spectacle as if you are doing so; like some do in the electronic light show church of the airwaves. No; it is a the real thing here in this world and not a sissified Hollywood version that is unreal; since it is all staged and filmed. TV is not reality, it is an illusion of reality: a virtual reality, and thats all it is. They are up in their high ivory towers, and we are out here in the land and in the battle fields and on the front lines as they sit in their cushy, posh and lavish abodes surrounded by stone walls, fencings and gates. We get our hands and faces dirty and we get bloodied and they do not, and so; make no mistake about it, they can not relate to you or I, though they profess to. I am talking about your rich preachers here. Jesus is your true preacher, so hear him!
It was Roman soldiers who said the ultimate truth of Christ as he was on the cross. "Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God." Matthew 27:54 And so it was soldiers who made the ultimate confession.
One day the King will come out to his people riding with his army and he will come up to you and call you up into the ranks of his service to be among his soldiers and you can not prevent his calling. He will draft you, and like it or not; you will be one of his soldiers. You have no say so over it. You might not believe it today, but there ahead you will remember that I forewarned you and told you it would be so. Yet when you find yourself there in his ranks, you will realize thats where you want to be and would not want to be anywheres else.
Soldiers know their Kings voice. Another they will not follow.
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