Mentor
30th March 2004, 02:15 PM
I am new here. I hope that this might help those who are trapped in a lukewarm Christian life. :wave:
Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
We are living in the last days. The apostles declared that in the last days, the times would be very difficult for believers. 2000 years have passed since those Biblical warnings were written; how much moRe are we living in trying and evil times? How much more meaning does the term "last days" have for us now?
Jesus said that in the last days, brother would betray brother to death. The lovelessness in the Church today is appalling. We have professing Christians living an openly gay lifestyle and calling it love; we have syncretism, or "tolerance" for other religions - all in the name of love; we have Christians daily devouring each other through name-calling, arguements, and gossip; we have weak liberal "Christians" who teach a double-lifestyle - social ethics and moral disobedience. We have the "Jesus Seminar", a group that tries to destroy the validity of God's Word; we have "Christian" cults who deny the divinity of Jesus and televangelists who preach that a "child of the King" should be rich. A great majority of Christians are living in greed, tithing 100 dollars so they can receive 1000 back from a God who is indebted to no man. No one is content with what they have; you often hear these televangelists says that believers have "great riches" in their "heavenly account"; all they have to do is give so that God will take those heavenly riches out of their "account" and give it back to them four-fold. Funny, I thought we were supposed to lay Up treasures in heaven, not bring them down Here.
We are living in a evil world. But we have become like a frog who sits in a gradually heating pot; we don't feel it. We have Christians who call the world "my brother" and therefore live like them. The Word says friendship with the world is hatred towards God, and therefore many Christians who now call Jesus "Lord, Lord" are living a lie; they will not realize their dangerous state of being until Jesus returns, and are caught in the snare of the last Day. They will shrink from shame at Him, and Jesus will expose these professing wheat as the tares they are. Unfaithful and lazy, wicked servants; they will be assigned a place with the hypocrites. Live like the world; be punished WITH the world.
Grace is a wonderful thing. But be warned; God is not mocked. You can only treat as unholy the precious blood of Jesus for so long; judgement is coming for those who profess to know God but deny Him through their wicked deeds. Children I urge you to part company, according to the Word, with anybody who lives in such a way. Do not let any man decieve you with empty words; these Christians who are unfaithful adulterers will be cut into pieces and be thrown into darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The Day of the Lord is coming, and it will be wonderful for those who love His appearing, who have stayed faithful and who do not deny Him throigh wicked deeds and wicked words. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and no murderer has eternal life in him. We cannot love God, whom we have never seen, if we do not love our brother that we DO see. Loveless Christians will pay the price for their lovelessness.
I give this warning in the name of Jesus Christ. As for those who live in obedience to God's commands, I exhort you to continue in the faith, staying faithful to the Lord, and loving the brothers and sisters in our faith. Those who persist in sin you must rebuke, in love, so that they may not lose what they have worked for, so that they - and you also - may be rewarded fully. Do not be led astray by false doctrines; anyone who runs ahead of the teachings of Christ does not have God.
Mentor
Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
We are living in the last days. The apostles declared that in the last days, the times would be very difficult for believers. 2000 years have passed since those Biblical warnings were written; how much moRe are we living in trying and evil times? How much more meaning does the term "last days" have for us now?
Jesus said that in the last days, brother would betray brother to death. The lovelessness in the Church today is appalling. We have professing Christians living an openly gay lifestyle and calling it love; we have syncretism, or "tolerance" for other religions - all in the name of love; we have Christians daily devouring each other through name-calling, arguements, and gossip; we have weak liberal "Christians" who teach a double-lifestyle - social ethics and moral disobedience. We have the "Jesus Seminar", a group that tries to destroy the validity of God's Word; we have "Christian" cults who deny the divinity of Jesus and televangelists who preach that a "child of the King" should be rich. A great majority of Christians are living in greed, tithing 100 dollars so they can receive 1000 back from a God who is indebted to no man. No one is content with what they have; you often hear these televangelists says that believers have "great riches" in their "heavenly account"; all they have to do is give so that God will take those heavenly riches out of their "account" and give it back to them four-fold. Funny, I thought we were supposed to lay Up treasures in heaven, not bring them down Here.
We are living in a evil world. But we have become like a frog who sits in a gradually heating pot; we don't feel it. We have Christians who call the world "my brother" and therefore live like them. The Word says friendship with the world is hatred towards God, and therefore many Christians who now call Jesus "Lord, Lord" are living a lie; they will not realize their dangerous state of being until Jesus returns, and are caught in the snare of the last Day. They will shrink from shame at Him, and Jesus will expose these professing wheat as the tares they are. Unfaithful and lazy, wicked servants; they will be assigned a place with the hypocrites. Live like the world; be punished WITH the world.
Grace is a wonderful thing. But be warned; God is not mocked. You can only treat as unholy the precious blood of Jesus for so long; judgement is coming for those who profess to know God but deny Him through their wicked deeds. Children I urge you to part company, according to the Word, with anybody who lives in such a way. Do not let any man decieve you with empty words; these Christians who are unfaithful adulterers will be cut into pieces and be thrown into darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The Day of the Lord is coming, and it will be wonderful for those who love His appearing, who have stayed faithful and who do not deny Him throigh wicked deeds and wicked words. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and no murderer has eternal life in him. We cannot love God, whom we have never seen, if we do not love our brother that we DO see. Loveless Christians will pay the price for their lovelessness.
I give this warning in the name of Jesus Christ. As for those who live in obedience to God's commands, I exhort you to continue in the faith, staying faithful to the Lord, and loving the brothers and sisters in our faith. Those who persist in sin you must rebuke, in love, so that they may not lose what they have worked for, so that they - and you also - may be rewarded fully. Do not be led astray by false doctrines; anyone who runs ahead of the teachings of Christ does not have God.
Mentor