VIP LIST

THE BOOK OF LIFE

In todays' culture, there are many socialte events that takes place in which majority, if not all of them contains RSVP and VIP Lists in which only few individuals added on. A 'very important person' (VIP) is an individual who is accorded special priveleges due to their status or 'importance'. At the night clubs where if you're VIP, you're at the nice section in the venue where you get the best of the best bottle service and get to skip everyone else in the long line who aren't on the VIP lists, waiting and hoping to get in. Or when you see all the celebrities enjoying floor seat views at the NBA Basketball games, or even when you see fans of musicians right in the face of their favorite artist performing up close. Basically, socially notable people who recieves special treatment for any reason. And even if you're not socially notable, if you have the money, you can obtain some VIP perks buy purchasing it, depending on the type of event or situation. The VIP status gives the special treatment usually involvng seperation from common people, and a higher level of comfort or service...

----- I myself do know a little bit of the VIP and special treatment perks. From people giving me free gifts and offers, free or highly discounted meals at restaurants, upclose views at concerts and recieiving a little bit of favoritsm (although not wanting to admit that back in my wordly days, although it was cool while I had it, it was all very vain and had me feeling as if I was some unique, well deserving rare individual in the midst of "basic" people. I was extremely prideful which is a HUGE sin and iniquity before the Lord. "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished." ~Proverbs 16:5 "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Better is it to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." ~Proverbs 16:18-19 "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." ~Proverbs 8:13 "When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom." ~Proverbs 11:2 "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips." ~Proverbs 27:2 "For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low." ~Isaiah 2:12...

-----The Lord most definitely humbled me and led me through a very good experience while in the stripping down humbleness in the beginning of my walk. It's a very good life experience. While getting rid of all my materialistics and vanities, once becoming first, then experiencing how it is to become last. Not only that but he revealed to me exactly why pride is a sin...The big factor in satan's fall! "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou was perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled thee midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as a profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stone of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou has corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee." ~Ezekial 28:13-17 God made satan very very very beautiful which led to him being prideful. The pride became so exceedingly high, he then led to self idolatry, thinking he could be like unto God. "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." ~Isaiah 14:12-15

----- Coming to the knowledge and awareness of the truth, I thank the Lord for it. I've also come to realization as to why the devil seeks to devour and destroy as many as he can...The devil, who was once an angel knows what heaven is like. He knows the glory that is being within the prescence of the Lord. He messed all of that up due to his faulty iniquities and he doesn't want ANYONE to experience and enjoy the greatness and righteousness that he once was apart of. While many people in the world of today's culture are seeking to be on the VIP List and the perks thereof; I've come to the realization and the epiphany that there is truly only ONE VIP LIST that actually matter which is the BOOK OF LIFE! "And the devil that decieved them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand for God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire," ~Revelation 20:10-15 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." ~2 Peter 3:9 

-----Reflecting back on the temporary things on earth vs the eternal after-life, The VIP Lists for these socialite event is pretty self explanatory in a way...It's an EVENT; Event's are only a matter of time periods. The night clubs are specifically on at the night times. The athletes at the sporting events cannot compete all day and night long straight, hence why the games only last about 48 minutes to 3 in a half to 4 hours long MAXIMUN depending on the sport. Same with the musical concerts and festivals; It's only for a time. They cannot put on a show for a very long time as they need rest and practice for their next temporal event. Now when it comes to JESUS and his words and promises, there is nothing temporary about it! "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told yu. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and recieve you unto myself; that were I am, there ye may be also." ~John 14:2-3 "He that believeth and his baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." ~Mark 16:16 "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." ~Matthew 24:35...The blessing and inheritance that Jesus has for his bride is very eternal. Which is why we must strive to enter by worshipping in spirit and truth "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." ~! Corinthians 2:13-14 "But he answered and said, 'It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'" ~Matthew 4:4 (Revelation Chapter 21) "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whome he may devour:" ~1 Peter 5:8 "Jesus the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." ~Hebrews 13:8 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." ~Romans 6:23 

-----The wordly man made VIP lists are so irrelevant compared to the BOOK OF LIFE! Your name MUST be in the book in order to enter into the kingdom. This is a very important VIP LIST. It's the lists of all lists ever and it is very spiritual as it determines our fate to either eternal life (if you're name is written in it) OR eternal damnation and suffering (if your name isn't found). Let this be encouragement to all whether in Christ already or to the curious...Jesus is the IT Factor! He is the only way. "Jesus saith unto him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.'" ~John 14:6...Lets focus our minds on the REAL VIP List that is the BOOK OF LIFE rather than these false, wordly and fleshly man made VIP Lists here on earth; for our souls' sake! It's much more beneficial to do the Lord's will rather than our own. Don't be deceived! 

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