Living by the Sword

The days declare the end is coming Jesus is returning in our time and He is coming quickly, suddenly as a thief in the night.   You will have no time to prepare for His coming after He appears you must be prepared and ready to meet the Lord in the air.

You must understand that being a true Christian is more than just tossing the name of Jesus around a few times while you go through the motion of speaking his name and having a form of religious worship.   It is more than attending a church group every week where you are entertained in your flesh by a church choir or band of musicians who have practiced for hours just to make the perfect performance for you.   It is more than sitting for an hour and a half listening to a charismatic modern day speaker sell you positive thinking messages of how to get anything and everything from God you want.   While leaving out the fact that you must repent of your sins, turn from your sinning, your old sinful heart must die to your desire to sin, you must be born again in the newness of the image of Jesus Christ and you must have a new sin free heart to live and walk in His Holy Spirit

Every day and hour you must be able through Him and His power in you to bear your cross for Him as He carried His for you.

These charismatic modern day messengers of the lies of Satan and the doctrines of men will never tell you that you must become so in love with Jesus whose name you mention only once in a while when you pray for something you want from God, they will not warn you of the dangers of your dyeing in your sins and going to a devils hell fire for all eternity.

Theirs is a modern day philosophy one world order all are equal, politically correct no feelings hurt everybody live it the way you feel it all-inclusive everybody is going to heaven doctrine of all roads lead to heaven and none to hell.

Jesus never preached a once saved always saved modern thinking gospel of comfort in your sins and having everything you want to pleasure your flesh from God.    He preached the old fashioned word of God suffering for the cause of Christ and the word of God, repent be born again of the Holy Ghost or perish in your sins was His message and still is.

He preached that we must love God deeply with our whole heart, mind, body and soul and have His Holy Spirit living in us guiding us to live by every word spoken by the mouth of God.   We cannot rely on the doctrines of men and the lusts of our flesh to give us endurance in this war of Satan against our bodies and souls.

In order to be saved so that we can overcome the hard severe tempting, trials, testing’s and tribulations of Satan and our own flesh and endure to the end.   We must know Jesus and have a very personal relationship with Him.     Calling yourself Christian and practicing religion will not be enough for it will not get you victory over Satan, sin, death and hell and into God’s heaven.

So are you really ready for the coming of Jesus?   Perhaps you say you are a Christian and because you say it that makes you ready but I ask are you ready?   Is it possible for a Christian to miss the calling up of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ?   Is it possible for a Christian to fall by the wayside lose their love for God and be deceived and defeated by the forces of evil.

I think yes.   Why do I think yes?

Because Jesus warned us that in the last days false Christs, false teachers and false prophets would arise in the church and would deceive many.   He said because of the love for sin the love of many would become cold.

Sin in our lives will never give us power to overcome Satan and the world in fact sin will work the very opposite it will have power over us and keep us under the control of Satan defeating us in every way until it completely destroys us in this world and in the world to come separates us from God forever.

“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”   Matthew 24:24

“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”   Matthew 24:13

“Jesus said, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”   Matthew 24:12

The hardest task for preachers of the true full gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in today’s generation of luke warm, cold backslidden Christians is to preach the truth to them.

They have believed so many lies and false doctrines of men and devils that their hearts have become so hardened to the truth that they can’t handle the truth when they hear it.

Satan is so successful at twisting the truth of Holy Scriptures and deceiving them with half-truths and lies concerning God’s word that many who profess themselves to be Christians are a greater threat and enemy to the true church of Jesus Christ and the men and women having the true call of God upon them.    Religious Christians are bigger threat to the preaching of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ than atheists and unbelievers.

It is so much easier to preach the gospel to unbelievers, agnostics and atheists than it is to preach to those Christians caught up in half-truths and lies concerning the Holy Scriptures.

It is the hardest thing in the world to instruct or warn those who have just a little knowledge of the Scriptures and won’t bother to seek out the truth of them for themselves.

So many professing Christians in today’s world love the world and the sins of it more than God that they have no room in their heart to love God, study His word, obey His instructions or truly follow Jesus.

They had rather listen to the voice of Satan and his little demon spirits who follow him than to hear the voice of God speaking from His holy word and the Holy Spirit of God speaking from the lips of His called, sanctified anointed pastors and preachers instructing them and warning them to be careful who they believe and follow.

They had rather question the word of God in obedience to that little voice of Satan who first enters their mind with his words of doubt and then fills their heart with it,” Yea, hath God said”. Concerning something that God said was sin and abomination in His sight and warns us all to stay away from because the wages of sin is death.

It is not a matter of ye hath God said it is a matter yes God commands.

“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”   Genesis 3:1

Every time God says, “Come out from among them be separate from them and don’t touch that unclean thing He means it!

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,”   2 Corinthians 6:17

There is no room for compromise, inclusion or acceptance of what God says is sin and abomination in His sight.   There is only God’s command to observe and obey His laws of righteousness or perish in our sins.

“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."   John 8:24

God recognizes no political correctness no equality with sin.   When it comes to sinners God is not concerned about whether He hurts our feelings, God through His Holy Spirit warns us all convicts us all of sin and commands repentance, turning away from and separating ourselves from sin which leads to wickedness and in the end death and eternal punishment of the wicked soul in a devils lake of hell fire.

Jesus warned us to beware of false Christs, false teachers, false preachers and false prophets that would be numerous and very challenging to the truth of His gospel in the last days.

There are many voices flowing through our ears many doctrines being expounded to us and God leaves it up to us to determine the truth from the lies Jesus warns us not to be deceived.

We had better read and search the Holy Scriptures for ourselves measuring everything we hear and see with God’s word.  We had better be keen in listening for the voice of the Holy Ghost for it is He who will teach us and interpret the word of God to us only through the written word.   It is He who will reveal the truth to us and expose the lies and the liars.

God sends preachers and prophets to warn and encourage from the Holy Scriptures, He sends pastors to feed and nourish His church with His word.   They are never sent to interpret it from their own view point or form their own doctrines or opinions from it only to preach it.

God wrote the Holy Bible and only the Holy Ghost can and will interpret it to those who sincerely read it and search out its truths for themselves.

In reality there are only two kinds of people in this world.

There is God hating world loving, sin loving, truth hating people so caught up in the ways and pleasures of this world that they have no room for God in their lives and don’t want anything to do with him.

There is people who call themselves Christians but they are cold,luke warm, world loving, sin loving pleasure seeking confessing God with their mouths but their hearts are hardened against His word and they are far from Him and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus said, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”   Matthew 24:12

Brothers and sisters the Holy Scriptures warn us that our God is a very Jealous God He will not allow us to share our love with sin and the world.   He commands us to love Him with our whole heart, mind, body and soul and keep all His righteous laws and commandments which are good to the saving of our souls.

“If ye love me, keep my commandments.”   John 14:15

Seeing then that there is only two kinds of people we can be and that we are in one group or the other.

We are either living the truth or living the lie.   We love God and hate sin or we love sin and hate God.

We cannot love both and live in the way of both.

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”   1 John 2:15

 The lives we live daily will testify of which group we are part of we cannot fool the world for the world knows its own, we cannot fool Satan for Satan knows whom he has deceived with his lies.

And we cannot fool God because He knows our heart better than anyone.

We only fool ourselves if we think we can live double lives for we cannot serve two masters we will love the one and hate the other or we will be devoted to the one we love the most.

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”   Matthew 6:24

It is time we search our own heart and arrive at the answer of which group we live in, whose we are and whom we worship and serve.

Prophets, pastors, preachers and teachers called by God sanctified by the will of God, anointed by the power of His Holy Spirit can only warn us of the consequences of listening to Satan’s lies and doctrines of men they cannot determine the condition of our heart for they cannot see inside of us.

But know that God sees the heart of every living soul nothing is hid from Him.

 When we come down to the end of this life’s journey and by the fact that we are all eternal living souls created by God to live forever in one place or the other and there is also only two places for us to go after death.  

Heaven or hell.

And our decision of which group we choose to live in on earth will very much determine where we live in eternity.

If your journey were to end right now where would you go?   Only you can make that decision.

I made mine many years ago and have never regretted the decision to follow Jesus that I made and it is that choice that keeps me enduring today.

 Be assured on the other side of the grave God will make His decision based upon your decision and He will give you your eternity according to which group you have lived your life with and in and by your choices you have made.

Backsliding Christian it is time for your return to God it is time for you to lay down your sins take up your cross daily and follow Jesus.

It is time for revival in your life!!!

In the words of a great man of God who preached the word of God like it is written.

William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

“A revival does two things. First it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!” (Billy Sunday)