I pray that many of you will seek Him to be your Savior. God bless you all.
We are living in the time that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 24. Daniel also spoke of this time and Ezekiel did as well. This is why so many are preaching about prophecy these days. God’s prophets spoke about this time and we are seeing it come to pass on the news and other media outlets every day.
God has told us of this time and it is an evil time with people rejecting the Word of God and many of the prophecies contained in it. Yet many people are seeking their Savior in Jesus Christ. So many have heard of Him and the salvation offered through belief in Him yet some are finding their Savior and some are still rejecting His grace and mercy. Time is running out for those who want to be included in the church to be taken up when the Trumpet sounds.
I’m not saying that you can’t accept Jesus during the Tribulation but it will be difficult and dangerous. Christians will not be accepted and will be hunted during this time. If you choose Jesus as your Savior and refuse to take the “mark”, you won’t be able to buy or sell and if you are caught you will be killed. Make sure that you find your Savior soon…before the Trumpet sounds.
The trap that most of us live in is created by Satan when we are young. We live in the “cell” that is our life and it becomes comfortable. I’m not saying that we worship Satan but before we can decide about following Jesus, he can come in and tempt us with a comfortable existence that we don’t want to leave. Many people, especially in the South, fall into this trap and they don’t even know it. They’ve been taken to church since they were in diapers, so the idea of going to church is planted early in life. This isn’t a bad thing but for those who have grown up in this culture, it can be deceiving.
When you ask someone if they are a member of this church and they tell you that they’ve been going to this church ever since they were a baby, that is a clear expression of a “cultural Christian”. Going to church, reading the Bible, listening to sermons every week at church, and even teaching Sunday School are all wonderful things to do but these become habitual. Some would ask me “What’s wrong with having a habit of going to church?”. Nothing is wrong with it BUT if you believe that you are a Christian because of your attendance record then you’re missing the point.
Being a follower of and a believer in Jesus doesn’t automatically happen just because you are in church or are a member of a church. Belief in Jesus comes from hearing the Word of God preached and being convicted by the Holy Spirit that you NEED Jesus as your Savior! No amount of work on your part or anything in this world will help you become a Christian. God sent Jesus to do what was necessary to save all of mankind and He did. All we have to do is believe in our hearts that He did and accept Him as our Savior.
Not one of us has a choice in this world. Every person that is alive today did not have anything to do with their birth. Each of us that is born on this Earth has a certain number of days and hours that were appointed to us and we can’t live past that last hour and minute. What can you or I do about our life’s end? Is there anything that we can do? Some of us have been given twenty years to live. Some of us have been given nearly a century to live here. There is no special diet that will extend your life or the quality of it. Yes, many people do claim that diets with fewer calories or fewer carbohydrates, or less meat, or even a diet that excludes meat entirely will give you a more healthy life.
Diets will not give you a life of ease and great health without exercise. The problem in this world, especially in America, is that we are vain. We look at our faces and our bodies and think that if we looked better or were healthy then our lives would be much better off than we are now. In some lives that may be true but a healthy body with less fat on it doesn’t help you when this life is over. We only look at life from our point of view but God looks at us as His children who have an immortal soul. Your actual life doesn’t end when this body dies.
If you have given your heart and life to Jesus Christ and follow Him as your Lord and Savior, your life will go on into eternity! There is another problem with our eternal soul though. Even if you don’t accept Jesus as your Savior, your soul still lives into eternity but you will live that life without God or any hope of seeing Him except at the judgment seat. It is at that point that many people who have been in church and were members of a church and possibly were baptized will find that they never actually gave their heart and their life to Jesus. They just went through the motions.
For born-again believers, the judgment seat of their salvation doesn’t exist. Christians will be judged by what they did while they were alive as Christians. Their works will testify about their quality of salvation. So, you have a choice and you have always had this choice. Do you accept Jesus as your Savior or do you decide that you will wait a while before making that decision? The problem with waiting is that you don’t know how many more hours or minutes or even days you actually have to wait! God knows exactly how much longer each of us has but putting off an eternal decision is really not worth it. “It is appointed to each man once to die and then the judgment“; that is from God’s Word. Will your judgment be of your sins and thoughts or of the works that you actually did for God’s Kingdom?
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