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Life Records  Why Heavenly Books  Facing Life Records

How God Tracks/Records/Judges --- Three Books         These books track your decisions and consequences.  

But first...  How do you make decisions? 

Some are black & white. Others aren't.

How do you make decisions?  Are you fully convinced of a decision

or just "playing it by ear" and gambling with decisions? 

Example. If you buy beer and get into trouble: for driving under the influence or worse -

don't expect the bar or grocery store to come to your aid. They made their money

on the sale. You might go to jail. The bar or restaurant will have other customers

ready to replace you even if you're in jail for years. A sentence for 10 years

to life - means the sentence has a tail (to life). The 10 years might be extended up to

the end of your natural life.  Hint!  Don't drink alcohol or use illegal drugs.

More on alcohol.

      Three scriptures to ponder.

               1)  Proverbs 16:9-10   Read examples of Divinely directed decisions.              

               2)  Philippians 1:6    "I am fully convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue ... 

               3)  Hebrews 6:9  "...but we are now firmly convinced..."

No wiggle room here.  Example.  Are you fully convinced that smoking and

drinking alcohol are good?  Well then, don't.  Fill in the blank of what you should

or shouldn't do.  Some decisions take 30 days, some shorter some longer.                      

A delayed decision is a decision.  Justice delayed is justice denied.                    

1)     Book of Life

           Your name is recorded here if you accepted Jesus.

Scripture References to Book of Life

    described in this book.
    (Whole Chapter: Revelation 22 In context: Revelation 22:18-20) 

2)     Scripture References to Book of Remembrance 

        All of your good works are recorded in this book. The Book of Remembrance 

Malachi 3
16Then those who feared the Lord talked often one to another; and the Lord

listened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him of

those who reverenced and worshipfully feared the Lord and who thought on His

name. 17And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I

publicly recognize and openly declare them to be My jewels (My special

possession, My peculiar treasure). And I will spare them, as a man spares his

own son who serves him. 18Then shall you return and discern between the

righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not

serve Him.

3)     Book of Iniquity - Not directly named in scripture.         All of your evil deeds of omission and commission are recorded in this book.  Example is of a sin by omission is not actively fulfilling the Great Commission as recorded in Mark 16:15 and Matthew 28:18-20.

This kind of behavior will destroy you.

    The angels record our lives -- even the secret things.

Conclusion 

Your evil deeds (Book of Iniquity) will be erased if you are

acceptable to Jesus and live your life by relying on Jesus'

righteousness. 

Your good deeds (Book of Remembrance) will be erased if

you not accepted by Jesus by actively or just passively sinning

by not fulfilling the Great Commission, for example.

Thus: Life or Death decision.

Confused?

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This chapter summarizes decision making

You can't sit on the fence.

Your daily choices determine your fate!

Learn how to make better decisions!

Jesus will help you to make good choices with your

personal Life Tutor, the Holy Spirit.  

    An example of decision making (Rev. 19:20)

     Those who actively or passively permit things to happen...

     "...accepted (or permitted) to be placed upon them the stamp (mark) of the beast and

     those who paid homage and gave divine honors to his statue.  Both of them were

     hurled alive into

     the fiery lake and blazes with brimstone."

     [Note: Active and passive decisions are treated the same by God.]

    "Whatever" decisions are decisions - even minor ones:

     Doing your homework instead of something else. 

     Avoiding people who do stupid things for "fun" like drinking, smoking 

     and doing illegal drugs. "Even a child is known by his acts, whether

     [or not] what he does is pure and right." Prov. 20:11

     You'll probably have fewer or no friends for awhile, but that's OK. 

     You could visit them in jail along with your pastor.

A passive decision is a decision. 

Not making a decision is a decision.

Example. Decisions God doesn't like. Malachi 3:5 "...I will be a swift witness against the

sorcerers, against the adulterers, against false swearers, and against those who oppress

the hirelings in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and who turn aside the temporary

resident from his right and fear not Me, says the Lord of hosts.  The Amplified Bible

Have you ever got the "best deal" from someone by passively robbing him/her on a low bid

for a contract job or as an employee? -- knowing full-well that you could pay him/her a living

wage? Consider yourself a passive thief.  In other words-a thief.

God only balances the books at the resurrection - that is after you die. Life or Death.

Any questions?

Galatians 5:14-26
¹⁴For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is 

complied with in the one precept, You shall love your

neighbor as [you do] yourself.
¹⁵But if you bite and devour one another [in partisan strife],

 be careful that you [and your whole fellowship] are not

consumed by one another.
¹⁶But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy]

Spirit

[responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then

 you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the

flesh (of human nature without God).
¹⁷For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy]

Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the

flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to

each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with

each other], so that you are not free but are prevented

from doing what you desire to do.
   

¹⁸But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.
¹⁹Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity,

indecency, ²⁰Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions

(dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),
²¹Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that

those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
²²But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy

(gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence),

faithfulness, ²³Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against

such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].
²⁴And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless

human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires.
²⁵If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit  we have our life

in God, let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]
²⁶Let us not become vainglorious and self-conceited, competitive and challenging and provoking

and irritating to one another, envying and being jealous of one another.

The Amplified Bible

Note: Good decisions put you in situations that make even better decisions

easier. The learning curve on how to make better and better decisions goes up

when you eliminate more and more bad choices/decisions and you choose

more and more good choices/decisions.  Its a process that takes wisdom and

help from God.

We are saved from destruction in hell fire by God's grace.  We will never be

perfect like Jesus is, but we are expected - by His help - to be more like Him

by miracles He will do for us.  It is a team effort.  God's part and our part.

A passive decision is a decision! 

Example.  Passively not spending time with God by not: attending church, personal

bible study, keeping the sabbath is --

telling God you don't  care about Him and later He could say to you

"I don't know you."  Depart from me - forever - in the second death.  

People have always been to "busy" for God even before the industrial revolution:

manufacturing plants, automation, automobiles, telephones, computers, etc..

This "really busy" thing is not new.  Luke 14:16-24 explains it.  The busy

people  in Luke 14:16-24  had interests in real estate, farming and one was

married.  What else is there besides owning property, earning a living and

being married?  Read Hebrews 1:1-40 about examples of what faith can do. 

Raise the dead, birth of baby, protection of a baby, winning a war are some

examples.  What else do you need to know that God will take care of your

own lives and problems?

Read "Christianity :: Basics" page

But unfortunately man - for the  most part - has chosen another 

way the way described in Gen 6

Bible Study.  It isn't written for a fast read.  

Study and Consider.
Emphasis in Scripture from Web Author

Galatians 5:16-26

16But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit 

[responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then 

you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the 

flesh (of human nature without God). 

17For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit,

and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); 

for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], 

so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.

18But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not 

subject to the Law.

19Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): 

they are immorality, impurity, indecency,
20Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper),

selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, 

sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),
21Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you 

beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such 

things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence

within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience 

an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), 

faithfulness,

23Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, 

continence). Against such things there is no law that can bring a 

charge.
24And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have 

crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions

 and appetites and desires.
25If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

[If by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward  walking in line, our conduct 

controlled by the Spirit.]
26Let us not become vainglorious and self-conceited, competitive 

and challenging and provoking and irritating to one another, 

envying and being jealous of one another.

Genesis 6
 3Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and 

strive  with man, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet 

be 120 years.
 4There were giants on the earth in those days--and also 

afterward--when  the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, 

and they bore  children to them. These were the mighty men who 

were of old, men  of renown.
 5The Lord saw that the wickedness of  man was great in the earth, 

and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was 

only evil continually.

John 1:1-9
 3Through  him all things were made; without him nothing was made 

that has  been made.  4In him was life, and that life was the 

light  of men.  5The light shines in the darkness, but the 

darkness  has not understood it. 
 6There came a man who was sent from God;  his name was John.  

7He came as a witness to testify  concerning that light, so that 

through him all men might believe.  8He himself was not the light; 

he came only as a witness  to the light.  9The true light that 

gives light to every  man was coming into the world.

 10He was in the world, and though the world  was made through 

him, the world did not recognize him.

Conclusions 

1   We are supposed to live like Gal 5:22-23 not Galatians 5:19-21

2)  God's Spirit prompts everyone to live correctly. John 1:1-9

    Gen 6:3 states that God's Spirit will not try forever to change us.  

3)  Man in general chooses to live Gen 6:5 
    John 1:10 The world in general doesn't understand how to live 

Godly lives because they don't have a personal relationship with Him 

by spending time with God in personal prayer and bible study 

and many ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit. 

The Light  referred to in John 1:1-9 is Jesus. 

Jesus came into the world as the light.  

4) What are your values? For example -- What kind of entertainment do you like?

 
Gal 5:22-23 or Gal 5:19-21.
We gradually become like the behavior we choose and are exposed to.  

Ask God for wisdom especially for situations we have little or no control of like behavior of family, coworkers, etc.

Pray for wisdom and favor from God for these situations.