The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling

The Mind of God~

My esteemed Father-in-Law Fred, preacher, pastor, farmer, spahetti cook, and friend, had a saying that he used all the time when he was asked to preach a sermon, or in any conversation that involved his first love Jesus, was this; "We must have the mind of God."

When I asked him to explain this concept to me after church one Sabbath he told me that although we are saved solely by faith through grace, we would be supremely unhappy in Heaven if our minds were not in the same conceptual framework as is the mind of He who saved us; and in his mind this had everything to do with LOVE. He believed firmly that the concept that God is Love is what will bind all of humanity into the praise of the Father when we are around the throne in heaven. How we got there was much less important that what we would do there "When We All Get to Heaven"!

Mind you, Fred was a good listener, and would listen to me as I tried to help him understand that the concep that what we do here on earth while important, was not more important that what we would do looking forward to an eternity spent with someone you disagreed with on principle. His explaination as to why there would be no sin in Heaven was that God loved everyone so much that if they would be unhappy being in Heaven that God would reluctantly honor their wish and put them to sleep for eternity to they would not have to suffer in His presence.

He could not get around the concept that while the 10 Commandments are important and need to be kept faithfully (as did he), we were still only saved by the love of God seen in Christ Jesus, and if we rejected this love we would die forever.

This was his sincerely held belief. 

It was not time for him to know the truth about salvation, and God did not force him to know this truth.

Today it is time to Know the Truth about salvation.