Today’s Christians have received the gift of grace and mercy in a world ripe with sin. Jesus has planted the Word of Truth only to see it trampled underfoot with suspicion and denial. God is love; He “did not send His Son to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him” (John 3:17). There will be a time of judgment, but now is the time of salvation. Christians should reach out in self-denial not Christ-denial.
There is
coming a time where the world and its Christless Christians, who bear no fruit,
will be judged harshly. These are the
ones who received the message of Christ on face value. They turn from the faith and claim Christ’s
truths are up for debate. God will
destroy their hedge of self-spiritualization.
He will break down their walls of man-made religion. He will trample them under His foot. He will make them a wasteland—neither pruned
nor cultivated. Briers and thorns of
bitterness will fill the soul. Hate will
fester in place of peace, contentment, and clarity. All God sees and hears are cries of judgment
against Him—He has and will turn a deaf ear to false Christians saying, “I
never knew you” (Matthew 7:15-23).
Denial and Consequence
If eighty
percent of America is Christian, and thirty-three percent1 of the
world follows suit, then why do so many taunt God with their deeds and demand
action from Him? They live like “hell”
and expect Him to answer their prayers.
God does not answer to us. So,
what happens? Many go their own way
saying the God of Scripture does not exist.
He is unkind, too demanding, and uncaring. His way of salvation is a farce—Jesus is not
the only way. This makes God (Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit) out to be a liar.
They mutate Scripture to satisfy their own twisted hearts. Jesus is aped into a self-serving,
hypocritical religion.
They claim
to follow Jesus and deny His deity asserting, “God’s Word has been
mistranslated,” or “How can man write an inerrant book,” or “God’s Word is
outdated,” or “There are many interpretations—it just depends on how you look
at it.” All outrageous! First of all, if you believe in a God, which
many of these so-called Christians do, then how is it you can’t perceive Him to
be capable of inspiring man (His creation) to write infallible words? How is it you can’t admit that same God can
provide avenues for His Word to be passed down through translation without
error? How can you claim God, who does
not change (James 1:17), to have given us a Word that would become outdated?
“All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and
training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for
every good work” (2 Timothy 4:16). “For
the word of God is living and sharper than any double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the
thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).
This
irritates the sinews of those rebellious to God. They want what they want and God precludes
them of such. His word cuts deep and to
avoid their desires from being carved out, the Bible is contested as errant,
outdated, or just outright manipulated.
Then, they turn on true Christians, who speak the truth, calling them
narrow-minded, prejudiced, and bigoted.
They repose in the shelter of free will calling their actions good and
those who confront them as bad. They
cast the Son of God and His flock aside, persecuting them while heralding their
wicked ways as the new way to God. Their
arrogance as to their way superior to Gods will pave their road straight to
hell.
Such
patterns of thought and subsequent actions will set you ablaze in the end. As dry grass curls and withers in the fire,
souls will decay in this life and the next.
No wonder depression, constant searches for happiness, and complete
feelings of emptiness course rampant through today’s world. All understanding has blown away like dust
replaced with refuse. All the while,
people will cling to false ideals of Christ hoping lies will answer their cries
for help.
God has
turned an unresponsive ear to false devotions. “If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law
(Jesus), even his prayers are detestable” (Proverbs 28:9). He has turned His back to charlatan
Christians, because they deny who He really is—they no longer pray to the one
and only God, they utter to empty air.
Because of belief in babblings, the world has caused its own
demise. The soul’s grave has “enlarged
its appetite” and “opened its mouth without limit” (Isaiah 5:14). Many will go down to the pits of hell
thinking their way is better than Gods.
One day, eyes and ears will be opened.
The unsaved and conceited “man will be brought low and mankind humbled,
the eyes of the arrogant humbled” (Isaiah 5:15).
God is
merciful or the world would not have received Jesus as the light of
salvation. But limits have been
set. Before long, a day of judgment will
be called for. God’s holiness requires
satisfaction. The end times are
here. I’m not saying it will be tomorrow
or next year or even in my lifetime—but it could be. No man knows the day, but we are given signs
to filter the times through.
Mature,
faithful followers of Christ are able to read the signs like meteorologists
read weather patterns; or how doctors are able to read the signs of any
particular sickness. The world has a
sickness and it is called self-importance.
Without Christ Jesus as your cure, your soul is terminable. The spiritual weather patterns forecast
Christ’s return and the coming storm on the horizon for those left behind after
the rapture of believers. We have
warnings all about us, yet so many choose to ignore and turn from their sin. We are blinded by desire, science,
technology, machinery, false teachers, apostasy, aped truths of Jesus
Christ. So things get worse, the world’s
disease goes unchecked and the cancer of denial spreads.
God exists,
Jesus is who He says He is. Refusal of
Him causes the Holy Spirit to crush souls and the Father to punish His
creation. He turns nation against nation
swiftly and speedily—not one of them grows tired of killing or dying for their
cause. The roar of hate is in unison
around the world. Rage growls, seething
with many a devised plan for horror.
Terrorists are everywhere like a roaring sea and they are quick to
implement death. There are clouds of
bombs, terrorist’s attacks, missiles, gun fire in unsuspecting public
squares. There is absolutely no light of
hope except through Jesus. But the world
deems Him as an unfit route of salvation.
All will continue to worsen—wait and see.
If you are
on the fence, why choose Satan over Christ? Ultimately, that’s what it boils down to—the
devils arrogance or Jesus’ humility.
There is time now to make the wise choice, repent and turn to the
Lord. “If we claim to be without sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our
sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:8-9).
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