KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!
JOHN
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KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!
JOHN
NEWLIN MINISTRIES
P O BOX 1038
CARY, NC 27518
https://johnnewlinministries.org
email: john@johnnewlinministries.org
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Blog: johnnewlin.blogspot.com
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In our day many people are perishing because they refuse to love truth and so turn and be saved. Despite God’s great patience, they just never recognize the truth of life – e.g., God and the gospel message of the Bible. So God gives them over to a depraved mind and they do what ought not to be done. He gives them over to a spirit of delusion.
These few sentences summarize the essence of 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 and Romans 1:28-32. There is more to read in both chapters about the subject. But this certainly gives an explanation for many of those in society who seem truly lost, unable to engage in rational discussion of issues and unable to see and recognize basic truths, at times leading very bizarre lifestyles. We see these troubled people in our daily lives, in the news, in their at times violent and irrational behavior in support of dangerous ideas. God has given them over to a spirit of delusion, and that is the dark place from which they view life and the world. To the extent any of these achieve any positions of power and authority in government or other significant organizations, all people are at risk.
Here are the core scriptures:
… and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. – 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. – Romans 1:28-32
Of course there are still many more who are just spiritually lost and have not yet heard or realized the truths of Jesus and the gospel. And many of these have been led astray by the deception that Jesus warned all of us of in these last days.
[This article is taken from the March 2025 John Newlin Ministries newsletter]
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KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!
JOHN
NEWLIN MINISTRIES
P O BOX 1038
CARY, NC 27518
https://johnnewlinministries.org
email: john@johnnewlinministries.org
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Blog: johnnewlin.blogspot.com
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Sometimes in a world in turmoil we just need a moment of quiet and reflection, a moment of peace. So here it is.
We believers in Jesus are on our way home. We are always on our way home and have been
ever since (1) he rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and (2) we
accepted Jesus as our Lord. Up to now
this going home has always involved the process of physically dying, but now we
are so close to the Lord’s return to collect his believers that we realize many
living believers will never die physically but will go with Jesus when he comes
to collect his believers.
We have never felt truly at home here have we, not on
this planet with so much mayhem and confusion and godlessness and evil
around. The whole world is under the
control of the evil one, as John tells us in 1 John 5:19. Our true home is where Jesus and the Father
are. Eternal life is being with
them.
Over the years I’ve written often about home, and I’ve
been thinking about that wonderful subject again. One of my favorite writers,
Robert Frost, wrote about home long ago in his Death of the Hired Man
poem. In a conversation there between a
husband and wife, one says:
'Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They
have to take you in.'
The other replies:
'I
should have called it
Something
you somehow haven't to deserve.'
These two incredible sentences capture it all, don’t
they. Home is a place you don’t have to
deserve. Heaven is our home, being with
the Lord, with God. We can’t deserve
that. We don’t deserve that. But we believers get in anyway. Why?
They have to take us in, because we are believers in Jesus!
We
don’t deserve to be there, but because of Jesus and our faith in him they have
to take us in.
Home. I’m ready for that place, and I expect you
are too.
Here
is my own poem on this subject written years ago. You may have already seen it.
WE ARE NEVER HOME
by John Newlin
We
are never home.
Not
now. Not here.
No
matter how we try.
We
cannot get there.
The
moments of joy
Family
and friends bring
Cannot
dispel
The
longing of our hearts.
Harsh
though the words,
God’s
children are
Strangers
in a foreign land,
Aliens
on planet earth.
This
is not our world.
But
we will soon be home,
That
we know.
Our
hope is secure.
There
is no doubt we believers are on our way home.
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Copyright © 2026 by John Newlin
March 2026
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Please
forward copies of this to whomever you would.
KEEP YOUR
EYES ON JESUS!
JOHN NEWLIN MINISTRIES
P O BOX 1038
CARY, NC 27518
https://johnnewlinministries.org
email: john@johnnewlinministries.org
X.com/johnnewlinmin
Blog: johnnewlin.blogspot.com
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