Appointed for Men To Die Once Then The Judgment — Randy Krahn

Judgment, Repentance, and the Household of God

Thinking of verse that says it is appointed for men to die once and after this the judgment and we Believers and unbelievers alike we have an appointment at the great white throne where you have to stand before the judgment seat and Give an answer and the things done in the body whether good or evil but the scripture does say that now is the time for judgment to begin at the household of God and And it says it begins with us first says in one Peter.

And what will be the end of those who don't obey the gospel? I was thinking of time in my life when I used to Train in judo and jiu-jitsu for a period of time and I was going tournaments before I was born again.

Returning to the Lord Through Repentance

I was backslidden. I knew the Lord when I was 12 Through my teenage years and then I fell away and my dad fasted and prayed for me For 40 days. At the end of that the Lord had mercy on me drew me back to himself.

I was able to humble myself. I never would confess sin. I'd always try to pray and ask Jesus to forgive me of my sin, but I never had power over sin and I was I was training in this trying to seek to save my life and I was in certain bracket and I was fighting for some Perishable gold medal thing and the guy flipped me and dropped me on my head and on my way home.

I began To have a lot of pain and I didn't know if my neck was broken. I ended up that night in the hospital and I met this man. His name was Jonathan Burns. He's a doctor. He gave me an injection Demerol so I could bear through it and Lord had mercy on me.

I didn't break my neck and then I got born again a short time after that and And when I got born again, all I wanted to do was talk about Jesus. Jesus was everything I Mean when when I found repentance and the Lord Drew me back to himself.

I just want to tell everyone the wonderful things that Jesus did for me. Don't ever lose that. That's your first love. I Called everybody in my Rolodex called everybody in my black book. Everybody who I worked with where whatever job site it was on.

I would just tell him what Jesus did for me. I was the boss so I could do it. I understand if you're a worker and you have responsibilities. You have to do it on your breaks. Or as the Spirit leads if your boss is gracious.

Sanctification and the Call to Holiness

But that's the wonderful works of God that I could share that I was dead in trespasses and sins and he made us a lot but then begins the journey of Sanctification. He sets us apart for a purpose. So that we can become useful to him.

So he deals with the sin issue. He takes away sin and he sees us just as if we never sinned and it's like the John Bunyan. He just pulls that burden off your back and I felt like 50 pounds lighter driving home from that meeting that night.

I had no idea my dad was praying for me. I had no idea of these things that someone had made a sacrifice of Love and that God is a God who hears. He's not dead. He's not like the bail on vacation. No, he's a God who hears.

We don't have to cut ourselves and scream and jump up and down. We have to call in the name of the Lord. It says whoever calls the name of the Lord shall be saved. I Don't believe in one save always save.

I believe we're being saved. I Believe it's a journey in a process and we have salvation yet to. To receive we need to be saved from lust. We need to be received from bitterness. We need to be received from resentments from greed need to be saved from the works of the flesh which are evident from scriptures.

Galatians 5. Ephesians 5 speaks of some of them. And we need to overcome. We look at all those seven churches. Speaks of an overcoming people in all those churches. They had things that he was pleased with.

There were things he was disappointed with except for maybe one of them the persecuted Church. It was a faithful church there. But in the end he says he who has ears to hear to him who overcomes. To him who overcomes of all these individual churches all over the place.

The Church Built on Christ the Rock

There is one church that has never been divided. It's complete and being built up into a spiritual house in the spirit Jesus being the cornerstone. Jesus being the rock where He tells Peter on on this rock.

I will build my church Jesus being the rock on which the whole house Stands the cornerstone and the capstone the Alpha and the Omega. He says in Revelation 1 I Am who who was who is who is to come? Recently, I heard this doctor.

I got on fire for Jesus and not even the doctor who gave me the Demerol shot. I texted him and he took time to meet me for coffee. I met him two or three times and I told him of the wonderful works of God what Jesus did for me, and I told him he could repent and be born again.

You know recently Dan told me yesterday that he heard news that is this Jonathan Burns is in his 50s. He passed away from Kobe. I Don't know the circumstances of it, but I thought you know what we have a day of visitation.

There's a time and a window for each one of us where God is merciful to us and we get this revelation. That there's something greater than everything going on around us. There's something greater than our pursuit for money and for fame and for attaining all we can and counting everything we can get and that there's a God out there that we have to answer to and our conscience tells us that and Our pursuit for finding God and finding true righteousness peace and joy.

It only comes through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit. And I thought as I laid in my bed this morning about that man. I liked him. Seemed a sincerity about him, but it's not good enough to have a sincerity.

It's not good enough to have good intentions and to say well. You know what I'm a good person. It's only good enough that we receive that that garment of salvation in that robe of righteousness that we are clothed with Christ and When we're clothed with Christ, and we are filled with the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, then we can become conformed into the image of Jesus because without that We're just a church that has no direction.

Growing From Faith to Spiritual Maturity

We have to fix our eyes on Jesus the author and the perfecter of our faith. Yes, we have to add to our faith. We can have childlike faith. We have to add to it virtue knowledge and on from there but for us It's important not to lose that childlike faith.

Because he goes back to receiving love. And then he says if these things are yours and abound in other words. This is the life cycle increasing growing from faith to faith. Growing in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.

So we don't become spiritual cripples. And just stay on milk and not come to solid food. You know we talked a few weeks ago about young men. We talked about little children. We talked about old men. You know the problem with Teenagers.

I have a number of them. I've had some and I have a number of them. The problem is rebellion and you get into those years of rebellion and the scripture says in one Samuel 15 that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and Stubbornness where you just dig your heels in you won't relent like iniquity and idol worship.

We would say well we want to have nothing to do with witchcraft and idol worship. We're not for that, but you know what? We won't submit to anyone we led by the Holy Spirit. And a lot of times what happens is the young men.

They're strong and the Word of God abides in them. What can happen is they can Become one of those men of renown that resisted Moses. Like Dothan and Korah. And we can they can perish in the rebellion of Korah.

Israel's Rebellion and the Need to Endure

I want to read a little bit from Jude and Juden verse 5 it says I want to remind you though you once knew this that the Lord having saved the people out of the Land of Egypt he afterwards destroyed those who did not believe.

Did you know that? He who endures to the end shall be saved. He called us out of darkness, and he conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of his love but we have to continue to look to him and be radiant so that our faces aren't ashamed.

And Those whom he called out of Egypt who were in bondage and he delivered them by a mighty hand and outstretched arm and they brought them through the Red Sea and saw the enemy perish and They sang the salvation song the horse and rider been thrown into the sea.

It was a type of baptism that they experienced. But God led them through the wilderness and there it was that they grumbled and they complained and then they rose up against Moses. Time and time again these men these leaders that were put in positions of authority rose up against Moses and said we hear from God.

Also, why do you lord it over us? So Moses wasn't lording over him. He was leading them, but they felt he was lording it over them. And you know what we say we got to break free from this guy. We can we hear from God also and it's important though when we start to hear from God.

This is a good thing that we do not become proud and conceited and puffed up. Doesn't matter what measure you attain to you associate with the lowly. You don't lord it over people. When we go to the Joshua house, or we went to the vision quest the thing the number one thing.

We might not have had our words. All right. We might not have had everything perfect and how we let our singing and the some of the notes weren't so good. And maybe we'd stumble a bit on our words. We're in his eloquent of speech.

But those men knew at the end of it that there was something different about those men because they spoke with authority they didn't speak like the other man and They had the love of Jesus. They had authority when they spoke and they had the love of Jesus when the crowds were following Jesus what happened.

They followed him and then even the centurions and they sent them to go and arrest Jesus and they come back. Well, where's Jesus? Well. No one ever spoke like this guy. What do you mean you thought what you believe in him also.

When he spoke he had the words of eternal life and we want to have that anointing. It's the anointing that breaks the yoke that authority comes from God. And Jesus said to Peter who do men say that I am.

Well, some say Elijah some say John Baptist some say this some say that who do you say that I am? You're the Christ. You're the son of the Living God. He says flesh and blood hasn't revealed it to you Peter, but my father in heaven.

And he said on this rock the revelation that Jesus is the Christ. That he is the foundation and the church is being built up into a spiritual tabernacle in Him and he says I'm gonna give you some keys.

The keys of the kingdom I'm giving to you Peter. He gave Peter authority in the church. And he's given some to be apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some teachers and some pastors. He gives gifts to men.

But he's that's not how we discern a true prophet from a false prophet. He says you'll know them by their fruits. You might not have everything perfect, but when you come in a place and you're right with God in your secret life.

You're right with God in your walk with him. Then the love of God is gonna emanate from you. I Don't care how righteous you try to make it if you are not flowing in the love of God. There's a disconnect between you and God.

Submission, Authority, and Humble Correction

Perhaps you're a Pharisee. Jesus found the Pharisees were against him. They were just like the sons of Korah. They were they did not like Jesus at all. They were not happy with him. We have to be careful.

We don't become rebellious like that in our hearts. That we're submissive one toward another. Submitting to the Spirit of Christ in one another not lording it over one another. He goes on to say this.

Of those the ones that he were saved from Egypt afterwards. He destroyed them who did not believe began in faith. Ended up getting an evil heart of unbelief and they departed from God and they wanted to go back to Egypt in their hearts.

They wanted to go back to Egypt. We have to guard against that. It can happen when discouragement comes in your life. You come a certain ways you hear the word, but then when trials come. When temptations come because of the word's sake they stumble and they fall being rebellious to the word to which they were appointed to obey and The and they wither may the Lord help us that we don't wither because of trials and temptations that come on the journey and.

Then he says to the angels who didn't keep their proper place. They left their abode. Has been reserved for them under chains under darkness until the day of judgment of that great day as Sodom Gamorrah and the cities Around them in similar manner fell.

He says these having given them over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh and set an example for them suffering the vengeance of Eternal fire these also like dreamers. They defile the flesh.

They reject authority spiritual authority over them in their life and they speak evil of Dignitaries or glorious ones they speak evil of those that God has put in positions. You know, there is a scripture My anointed and do my prophets no harm and God put an authority on Saul until he removed him from office.

David when he cut his robe even his conscience bothered him and Saul was someone where the Holy Spirit had already left him and evil Spirits came on him. But he was in an office. Just like the high priest was in an office when Paul says to him God will smite you you whitewashed wall.

And he says you talk to the high priest like that. He said I did not know. We have to respect the office that God has. We might not like the things that they're doing but we have to make sure that it's God who promotes us not us who rises up and challenges the authority of of God.

And I Say you test the fruit and you examine and if you're in a group where the Word of God is not being preached. Then find a place where it is but I'm saying if there's someone that God has given authority and You start to speak evil against him you start to judge them.

You'll be judged and press down shaking together and running over is gonna get poured into your bosom. Given it'll be given back to you. According to the measure you use he says why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye?

And you don't take the beam out of your own. First get the beam out and then we can exhort one another encourage one another. It's not that we don't deal with sin. We have to do things in a right way in a humble way.

Samuel exhorted Eli. He did it in a way because God put his word in his mouth. If you're going to rebuke somebody make sure you have God's word in your mouth when you do it. Then God will back you up if you're going on your own authority.

You're gonna have trouble. You're gonna have to deal with God. You don't want to tell you something about true false and prophets. A True prophet don't call himself a prophet. He might say that God spoke to me and he gave me a word and I proclaimed his word.

True Prophecy Versus False Prophecy

When Amos they said well go you seer we don't hear your words anymore. And he says I wasn't a prophet and I wasn't the son of no prophet. But I was leading the sheep and I was tending sycamore fruit and all of a sudden God revealed to me on the way his Word and he told me to to proclaim or prophesy my words.

And he said I just went and delivered the message and this is what God says. But today there's a famine in the land. Is a famine not of bread or of water. Costco's full and superstore is full. But it's of hearing the true word of the Lord and people are running the meetings and they're going to conferences and they're going here.

And there and we can get some encouragement, but we need to hear from the Holy Spirit. What is the Spirit saying to the church. I Know your works. I Know that you're doing all these good things and you hate the Nicolaitans and you you you stand for what is right?

And you're able to discern those who are prophets and those who are false prophets. Nevertheless, I have something against you. You left your first love you stop talking to people about how much you love Jesus.

You need to repent and do the first works. Or I'm gonna remove your witness. You're not going to be a witness. You're gonna be selling used vacuums that don't work to people who don't need them. You need to find something that you are on fire for Jesus about and you need to testify of what Jesus has done for you.

That is your witness. When people see that you believe in this Jesus, you're not peddling him for some purpose. You're not just a Jehovah Witness that has to go door-to-door to do your mantra and and to do your duty.

That you want you are this is the most important thing to you. The Jesus is the reason why you get up in the morning while you live and breathe and have your being in him in Christ. And you don't have to sell it people see it.

People see man, he's radiating. You are a lampstand. You don't put a lampshade on a lampstand. Everyone can see. I'll say Jesus freak boy that test when he went all out. That guy is just he's just radical.

Yes, I heard David Wilkerson say let's be radical and live according to this book. That's what we need to do. Be radical for Jesus. We don't have to drum it up and stir it up has to come from within and Overflows it out of your innermost being will flow.

Abiding in Christ and Receiving Life

Maybe you have a little trickle brother said but let it flow if there's sin in there that stopped up your well. Start to confess and repent of it and get it out of your life. We're not just trying to get on track a little bit so we can get on with life.

No Jesus has to be your feast. You have to feed on him. The one who feeds on me shall live. Jesus I am the bread of life. The one who feeds on me shall live. The one who drinks my blood this one shall have life and.

The people who didn't understand these things said this guy's crazy and they left and they followed him no more. These were disciples and Jesus looked at the twelve and he said do you want to go also?

He said master to whom shall we go. You have the words of eternal life. Jesus had authority. He wasn't worried they were gonna leave. He wasn't gonna try and keep his church big. He was thinning the herd.

He was getting the goats out. He wanted to make more room for the sheep. Wasn't so concerned about those who were there who were there for the loaves and for the fishes and for the bread. He was concerned about those who really wanted to change who really wanted to follow Christ.

He fed them all. But he said listen if you really want to have life. Come to me and be free. He told Peter I'm giving you the keys of the kingdom and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.

Whatever you loose on earth should be loosed in heaven. And you know what when we prayer pray together where two or three gather together in Jesus name and we agree according to his will. He hears us.

He hears us and we have the petition. You might not see it like Daniel for 21 days. But when you get the petition, you know that your prayer got through and you're waiting for the answer to come. Elijah prayed seven times that it would rain and he kept sending his servant to go check and when he had the petition.

Calling on the Lord in Crisis

Then he went to the king. We need the petition. We need to know in our spirit. I remember the time when Seth was was being born. I shared this before Seth was premature and while my wife was pregnant with him.

He's our number eight child and I had his name before I said name him Seth. I didn't even know it was a boy or whatever and then we found out it was a boy and I said well praise God Seth what does it say about Seth?

Then men began to call in the name of the Lord. I Said okay, praise God. So she's in the hospital and she's three weeks early and she started to have Complications and man the heart rate was going down and then all of a sudden I was there and all my blood pressure went up.

And I started to faint. I says no it's time to pray unbeliefs got me here. I went out in the hallway and I started to pray said Lord have mercy on this child. You gave me a word. You said you'd bring him forth.

And I want to see the salvation of God. I want to see the miracle of God and then the the nurse said get the doctor. Some doctor came there was people there. They said call the emergency c-section get the the other person there and they were calling and they were calling.

They say he's not responding. He's not responding. Nobody's coming. And I just got desperate in prayer blood pressure the heart rate was almost down to zero. I Just called on the name of the Lord because I know my God.

And I said Jesus Help us. And I heard from having a word that shit was like audible. But I heard it as clear as a bell in my mind that nurse must have thought I was crazy. But I didn't care because it was life and death.

It has to be life and death when it's about Jesus. I Heard this now I shall bring him forth when I got that petition from heaven. I went straight back into that hotel into that hospital room there and I saw the head crowning and coming out and That baby come straight out in Jesus name it was a miracle and then I thought afterwards about this and his name shall be called Seth.

Then men began to call the name of the Lord and that's how he came. I was called on the top of my lungs in that hospital in the name of Jesus and He answered my cry. It says the Lord heard us and answered our cry and delivered us from all our fears.

This poor man cried out and I heard the doctor. I don't know if she was a believer and unbeliever. I don't know, but she she heard me too. Everybody heard me in that word. She said look at this is a miracle child.

She says we only had two and this is one that's lived and she showed up me the umbilical cord. It was she said this is a true knot like you would take a piece of yarn and tie it in a knot that Umbilical cord was tied as tight as someone could pull a piece of yarn.

There was no oxygen going to that brain of that baby and She said this is a miracle child. She's hold that thing up to me. I didn't care about all that. All I knew is that baby come out that baby was alive and that baby was in mom's arms.

And I say I am I believe in a God who hears a God who answers by fire that when we call the name of the Lord he hears us. You have lost children. You have lost neighbors. You have lost parents. You have lost friends.

Get serious and get right with God so that God can hear your prayers. You know, there's a scripture in Jeremiah 23. I want to read it to you. There's a lot of people who are preachers today a lot of people that are pastors a lot of people who've gone To and fro and doing this and that.

But they were not sent by God. Some of them decided they make a fantastic career out of it. They went to Bible school. They got a job. But they don't have spiritual authority. They might know scriptures, but they don't have the anointing.

They don't have the Holy Spirit. So, what are you gonna do if you have a fancy car in the driveway that has all the brand new parts and everything. Just doesn't run. You know what when I was working in the world, I probably built a couple hundred houses.

I built an apartment site. I built a couple townhouses. And you know what? I could tell men go here and go there because I knew authority and I had people under me and I had people over me. And I understood authority and I got a lot done as an unbeliever without the Holy Spirit.

Dying to Self and Learning Humility

But you know what we can't do things that way we don't just add Jesus to the package. You have to be born again you have to die to what you can do and it has to be all from Christ and I didn't understand that for the longest time.

And so the greatest have to become the least and servant of all. I remember time after that at hundreds of men underneath me and Then I ended up in a place where I was building this one home. It was pouring rain.

There was mud out and this retaining wall was there and my brother-in-law built it. You didn't put enough supports in there and it was all thick clay and I was in the pouring rain digging this thing out and I never used a shovel for probably ten years like Myself and I'm there just digging this muck out and I said Lord.

What are you trying to teach me here? I used to be a somebody and now I'm nothing. I'm digging mud two days in the rain digging mud and That one at the end of the first day I'm just dripping and this kid comes and he's got this little girl and she's wearing the shortest skirt and the most immodest clothes and.

And I say, how you doing? And he I said, how you doing? He said, oh, it's the most fantastic day of my life. He says the best day and I said Lord, how can it be that here? I'm drenched. What is your purpose?

What are you trying to teach me here? And here's this young fella comes here tells me it's the best day of his life. I said Lord. You gotta help me to have a good attitude not to grumble and complain and to to learn humility.

And what it is you're trying to show me the next day he comes and he's there walking there and he's hanging his head. And I said, how you doing? And he says is the worst day of my life. Everything went wrong.

I said you come over here was pouring rain. So he comes over. I said, what's your name? He says my name is Caleb. Caleb that's a Bible name. I Said how do you go from the best of your life to the worst of your life in less than 24 hours?

I said you're running from the call of God. And I said you need to get your heart right with the Lord. And you need to lay off all that sexual morality. I didn't know the boy. I Need to put away all that sexual sin and all that rebellion that's in your heart and you need to make a decision to turn Your life around your parents obviously your Christian.

They named you Caleb and you needed to return to the Lord repent and return. And we went for a dinner. I bought him dinner and I shared with him the cost of coming to Christ. There's no easy believe ism guys.

There's a cost if anyone wants to come to me yesterday myself. You have to decide hey, I'm gonna lay off sleeping with women. I'm gonna lay off lying. I'm gonna put away lying evil speaking and all these things out of my mouth and I'm gonna put on the Lord Jesus Christ.

And he's gonna help me and if I fail he's gonna lift me up. There's a cost to count. That's easy believe ism. Oh just Let's pray this prayer. Say these few words put a little checkmark sign the little registration.

Oh, we got a few today. Oh. We don't want members there's some members of the body of Christ where our names are registered in heaven, that's all that matters. And I told him the cost and I said this is the cost and I said if you're serious about following Christ Call me.

I didn't hear from that boy for six months. Also one day. He called me. He says I've surrendered my life to Jesus. I'm getting baptized tonight with you and brother so-and-so want to join me in Vancouver.

I'd like you to be there and he went straight from there and he came and he moved into my house one day. He lived with us. We discipled that boy for 18 months. The whole purpose of all these things is to say this.

God's Work Versus Human Effort

When God does something it's genuine when I do something. It's a zero. The spirit gives life and the flesh prophets nothing. I'll finish here in Jeremiah 23 and He says in verse 16 thus says the Lord God of hosts.

Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesied to you saying what? They say worthless things to you and they speak a vision of their own heart and not from the mouth of the Lord. There's a lot of people who go out and they say all kinds of things and they share all kinds of words.

They do all kinds of words and knowledge and they say all kinds of wisdom that doesn't come from God. And God didn't send them. They're just speaking whatever Wisdom that comes to them from from the devil from their own imaginations.

Not from the mouth of the Lord and they continually say to those who despise me people who are unrepentant. People who are living in sin people who are not walking according to the the word. People are just living and doing what seems best in their own eyes.

And this is what these prophets say these false prophets. They say the Lord has said to me You shall have peace even though you walk according to the dictates of your evil heart. In other words, you can do whatever you want and you just pray this prayer and you're on the good.

Jesus loves you. Of course. He loves you. He loved Judas. Also He loved him to the end. I Bet you loved Lucifer also and then he fell. But these dreamers they speak evil of dignitaries. They speak evil of what they don't understand.

They're puffed up in pride. Guard against this pride in this rebellion because I tell you it'll be your downfall. I don't care how much scripture you can memorize if your heart's full of pride. You're gonna go in there and spend eternity with Satan.

Because rebellion is like witchcraft. We need to be humble humble humble. That's the words from Joshua house humble humble and humble a Lot of times these guys are an addiction and doing whatever because they were rebel against the authority.

And then what happens is pride comes before the fall and haughtiness before destruction. Next thing you know, they're back on the street with a bottle in their hand or shooting in the arm and This is the end and destruction.

Love, Mercy, and the Fruit of True Faith

A lot of men have perished but if we can humble ourselves and we can come under authority we can submit to the Word of God and Submit to those who preach and teach the Word of God in truth, and they have the love to back it up.

Because love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. If we don't love we don't know God. So I encourage you if you don't have love then get serious get on a fast start to pray and say Lord I don't know the love of God which surpasses all this knowledge that I got packed up into my head here.

Because there's a big disconnect between the head and the heart. We need the love of God. He told the Pharisees they they were all kinds of knowledge. Those guys go learn what this means. I desire compassion.

Go learn what this means. I desire mercy not sacrifice. We need the love of God. It's the love of Christ that leads men to repentance the kindness of the Lord and Then we need the message along with the love to nurture the men to become mighty men of valor like David.

Raised up these worthless rogues these 400 men of 600 men to become the mighty men of valor. Men who were in submission under David they risked their lives to get him some water. He was just talking. He said, oh if I could just get a drink from that well from Bethlehem or wherever.

Those men they broke through the ranks through I think it was Saul's men. He went they risked their lives to give to bring David a jar of water. He poured it out. He said I can't believe you guys did that.