Timothy Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U. S. Army

The ability to enter God's heavenly domain (which would be impossible other than for those who have been saved by God's grace through faith in Christ) is (and will be for the redeemed) such a transforming experience that it will be naturally accompanied by thanksgiving and praise to God for it.

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Psalm 100:4: Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

Our Lord God, who formed us in our mother’s womb, we are His cattle, the sheep of His field. (Psa 100:3) One needs to be aware that one who comes to you into the sheepfold, not by the door but by climbing up some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the door into your hearts, one having the humbleness to discern in the right spirit, He is the Shepherd of the sheep; to Him by the Porter one is led to open; that is our God the Father. One who is then led as a sheep to hear His voice; He then calls His own sheep by name; He leads them and goes before them; for the sheep then follows Him, hearkening to His voice. (Joh 10:1-4) Today, one who is then led in the right spirit, knowing it is our Lord Jesus, is our Shepherd, shall lack nothing to enter His gates with thanksgiving. (Psa 23:1) As you are led, be filled with the Spirit, and bless His name, giving praise and say unto yourself in psalms and hymns, with spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to our Lord Jesus. Giving thanks unto God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ our redeemer. (Eph 5:18-20)

Lord Jesus being our Shepherd, one then needs to be aware of the serpent who is around and is very cunning. As Adam and Eve, who were put in the garden, and who were told, “Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. The day thou shalt eat thou shalt surely die.” (Gen 2:9,16-17) The serpent then said to Eve, "Has God said, 'Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?'" Eve then said, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, God had said you shall not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you shall surely die.” The serpent then said, "You shall not surely die, for God knows the day you shall eat; your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Eve, when she saw the tree of knowledge of good and evil was good for food, and it was pleasant to her eyes, that made her desire to make her wise, she took and ate and also gave unto Adam, for their eyes were then opened, that led to the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye, leading to pride of life. (Gen 3:1-7/1 Joh 2:16)

The Lord God then came down; they heard the voice of the Lord God, and they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God. As the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden (Gen 2:9), the Lord God then drove them out and placed Cherubim and a flaming sword on the east side of the garden of Eden, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life. (Gen 3:24) Therefore, one needs to be aware not to keep friendship with the world, for the serpent who deceives mankind leads enmity with God. The evil spirit that dwelleth, then leads one in lust to envy as Eve, for the Lord God then resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble; therefore, submit yourselves to God the Father, and resist the devil the serpent, and he will flee from you. (Jam 4:4-7) The sacrifices of God are to one having a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart, for God the Father will not despise you. (Psa 51:17) Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord thy God, the earth also with all that within is. For the Lord has a delight in our fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is on this day. Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart and be no more stiff-necked. (Deu 10:14-16)

Deuteronomy 30:6: And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

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