Uneripísi Dupade Uruode ome yu
The Holy Spirit and our flesh are always fighting inside of us:
What I know is this: when Satan is working in me, God’s word is not as interesting at those times. But I also know that when the Holy Spirit is active in my life, at those times, God’s word is very interesting. It’s so good that I can hardly wait to share it with my fellow Ayoreos. I’m so grateful for the times when God’s Holy Spirit makes God’s word appealing to me.
We deceive ourselves when we call ourselves believers, but it’s only words:
This is what can happen, I might consider myself a believer in God, but, remember it is easy to fool ourselves. I could deceive myself about this.
If this were how things were with me, then the Lord Jesus would say to me in the future: “You taught people for nothing. Your messages had nothing of value in them. And your name is not found in the ‘book.’ I have not recorded any of the works you claim to have done for me, nor any of your teachings.”
If this happened, then Jesus would say to me: “So, now, you must go to the Lake of Fire. That was what you chose.” Hearing these words, I would be filled with dread. I would be afraid. But, afraid in vain, if it were true that he was sending me to the Lake of Fire.
One day Jesus will show himself as Lord. If my name is not there in the book, I will be sad, but in vain, it will not change anything. I’ll be sad that God looked for it, but it wasn’t there. There will be no time left for me to believe.
Let’s be on Dupade’s side:
Come now, my fellow believers in Jesus, let’s not deceive Jesus. Let’s not try to fool Jesus or his Father. Let’s give ourselves to God. Let’s give him everything we are and have. We won’t be able to fool God on that future day. Let’s not hide the sin that is in our hearts. Whoever does not have a clean heart might fool the rest of us, but God knows exactly what’s in our hearts. The day is coming when God will look for our names in the book to see if our sin has been forgiven, or if we have never truly asked God to forgive our sin.
There is a remedy for our sinful state, and that remedy is the Lord Jesus:
Oh, how grateful we should be that there is a remedy for sin. I think it was Peter who spoke to Jesus and said, “Lord, what should I do about the people who sin against me? Shall I ignore sin, or forgive them?”
Jesus explained it to Peter: ‘You all know that I have forgiven you many times. You should be like this also. Think the same way about this as I do.’ That’s what Jesus said to his disciples.
Time is running out, my friends, even this morning. Come now, and really believe in God today. Let’s don’t deceive ourselves.
If someone is hiding his sins, and has just been acting like a believer, he is deceiving himself. But there is no way he can deceive God. Remember now that it is easy to fool ourselves. If I go on fooling myself, though, I’ll end up in the Lake of Fire.
“If you are tired of this world, if you’re tired of serving Satan, then come to Me. And I will take the load off your backs,” Jesus said. Our loads are the sins we go on trying to hide. They are very heavy. “Come to me, and I’ll lift them off you,” Jesus is saying to us, counseling us about our sin. (Matthew 11:28,29)
Why don’t we fear God?
Soon it will be too late to have faith in Jesus. No more time for faith. The Lake of Fire is a terrible place. Terrible pain and suffering are there. So much pain with worms defecating on people. There will be an ugly odor there, a strange odor called sulfur. Fire burning people, but not killing them. They will cry. They will grind their teeth. They’ll long for escape, but in vain. The torment will continue, a kind that no one has ever experienced before – the very root of all suffering.
Why don’t we fear God? We don’t fear him because we have closed our ears from hearing him. But the day is coming when, at last, we will fear him, but it will be too late! Too late to put our faith in him to save us. It would be wise, right now, to stop hardening our hearts to his Word.
My teaching is a short one, but I want to say this: we all have the same Lord. The same teaching applies to all of us today. There is no one anywhere that can change anything God has said. We have the same Lord today.
Dupade is beautiful, gentle, good, kind. Peace originates with him. He has the final will about things.
When we doubt Dupade, it is like as if we said, ‘I’m greater than you are.’
God says: “People, your thoughts are not my thoughts at all. Not my thoughts at all! Your thoughts are ‘short,’ but mine fill the whole world.”
This is what God says to us. Therefore we know He is all powerful and so much greater than we in the way he thinks. (Isaiah 55:8,9)
But when we don’t believe in God we are saying, ‘I’m greater than God.’ But it’s a very ugly thing to think we’re greater than God, and to claim, “I know more that He does.”
You know, He is the all-knowing one, and we don’t know anything.
David, of long ago who we’ve never seen, said this: ‘I looked in vain for a place in the world where I could hide from God, and I went to the ends of the earth. I went to the depths of the sea, but God was there.’ There is no end to God, he existed in the beginning and will exist in the future. He will never change. God doesn’t grow old, but we grow old. We grow old, because we disobey Him. (Psalm 139:1-12)
There is nothing that excells God, nothing in the past, and nothing in the future. He never changes. He never grows old. We are the ones that age. It’s because of our disobedience, that we human’s reach a state of oldness.
Jesus is the Road to Heaven:
That’s all I have to teach this morning, but remember these few teachings of mine, for they are not difficult to understand. They’re simple, because a person just like yourselves has taught them to you. You’ve understood what I’ve taught you about what God’s thoughts are concerning you. You know about Jesus, and how he said to his disciples, ‘Follow me everywhere if you’re sincere about me. Love your neighbors, more than yourselves. If someone asks of you, and you have it, give it to him. And don’t expect anything in return.’ Jesus is saying this to us, ‘Don’t give with ulterior motives.’
We should be so grateful that we can be here, learning about what Jesus said and the counsel he gave, and all the good things he told that are yet to come. So, let’s not harden our hearts against what our Lord and Counselor has said.
“I’m the road,” Jesus said. “For any of you who put me first and are believing in me for the future, I will be the Road to Heaven. No one has entrance to the City that belongs to me and my Father, if he does not believe in Me.”
Let’s not take offense from someone’s teaching if what he is saying is true:
We’re grateful this morning that my few teachings are not hard to understand. Though not hard, perhaps hard for some of you to hear; but they are still God’s words, not my own.
He says, “If someone doesn’t believe in me and closes his ears to what I have to say, it’s because he still belongs to this world. And whoever is still of this world, that person does not yet belong to heaven. He is still defending the things of this world and finds our teaching offensive.”
So, let’s not be like the ones who find his teaching unpleasant, let’s be sincere. For when people don’t really believe in God, they can’t tolerate the things of God. They think we’re bawling them out, but it’s Jesus’ words we’ve been telling them. They think we’re scolding them here on earth, because they don’t yet have faith, and they don’t yet have a Savior. They love the things of the world and find them appealing. But God says to you who believe: “Know that the people of earth will speak evil of you, but you don’t have to worry about that. They talk like that, because they don’t believe in me, but in the future, it will work out for your good.” That is what God’s word says. “Those who make trouble for you now, I will make trouble for them in the future when the end comes.”
It’s a good thing to not treat our fellow believers badly, for God protects his believers. They are holy, just as God is holy. But those others, when Jesus comes back again that will be the end of them.
“Have faith in me,” God says, “Be true and faithful to me, and if someone speaks ill of you, don’t turn around and speak ill of him, just be still,” God says. “Just trust in me and believe in me. Their future is already planned, they will perish at the end of time.” And he says. “I will deny those who deny me and continue in sin.”
Try to bring that one who hates you to the Lord and pray for him. And forgive him and let’s do what our Lord Jesus said for us to do. He said we should pray for our enemies and those that despitefully use us, for there’s always the possibility that they will believe, and the Lord will take them up also, and they will become one with us in Christ.
This ends my teaching for us this morning. And I’m very thankful for the way my friends have been so quiet during my teaching. This ends my message.
Dijaide – Rincón de Tigre, Bolivia – 1975.
Transcribed and translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
