The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling

Cowards~

Bravery has been defined as being scared to death, but doing it anyway. The idea of 'overcoming' is ubiquitous in the gospel of the Kingdom. Jesus uses the word 'overcome' to establish the context of what it takes to enter the Kingdom of God. 

'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. Rev. 3:21.

But what does it mean to 'overcome'? What was it that Jesus overcame, that we must also overcome? Most of us would say 'sin', and that would be partly correct. Did Jesus, as God, have any propensity to sin? Not hardly! So the answer must go beyond the 'what' into the 'how'. How do we humans that have a genetic popensity to sin overcome sin? Jesus clearly states who will not be included in those that enter the gates of the New Jerusalem:

"Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying." Rev.22:15.

The most difficult part of the process of sanctification (becoming righteous in fact) is recognizing that we 'don't know what we don't know." If we believe that we already have all we need to be saved, and what our church teaches as the path to salvation is wrong, we can never understand what we really need to know to be saved.

There are conflicting messages in the New Testament on both the 'what' and the 'how' of salvation. Paul says one thing, Jesus says another, and somehow the church (for the past 2000 plus years) has tried to amalgamate these two identities into one unified whole. This cannot work. Doing this is the cowards way to salvation. Overcoming takes courage to accomplish. To enter the Kingdom of God, cowards need not apply.