Brethren, we have to be serious about our salvation it shall be a great time of trouble you know! Christ said we need to be born again.
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
To be born again is to have a knowledge of God, not just knowing who He is and if He exists but to have an experiential Knowledge of God. We are to love Him because He first loved us. It hurts God to see that he cannot save everyone, we in our sinful state cannot see how much sin has affected this whole world. Think not that the world is going to last forever, for it is temporal and it is only here for a time. This earth has been here for a little over 6000years.
2 Corinthians 4:18
18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. We obviously can be seen because we are what? TEMPORAL human beings and GOD is ETERNAL, The Alpha and Omega who has no beginning or end. Hallelujah !!
Daniel 12:1says: "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book." That book there is the Book of Life and it is not a literal book but it is remembrance. We have to be perfect for Christ to come and gather us. We have to the true character of God and stop calling him a murderer for the only murderer is who? SATAN. Satan is responsible for EVERY single death in human history. After Christ died on the Cross for our sins without sinning Satan knew that he had come to an end and he could have given up laid down and died but he DIDN'T and he is still here today 2000 years later tempt the people of God trying to make them commit sin and become his own.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Look at that Satan is the father of all SIN and operates on his GOVERNMENT OF SIN. We need to come to Christ and to be zealous and repent of our sins and the amazing thing is God still loves us and if we come to Him with sincere repentance He will hear and answer our prayers. Hallelujah!! Satan will try at all cost to try to get the people of God to sin and if we are children of GOD we operate under God's Government of LOVE and TRUTH! Brethren Christ is so loving, I have no say in what your destiny is only God knows, but He does not work on HIS foreknowledge. He has to wait for the sinner to have a willingmind and heart to accept Christ as Lord and Saviour and then work upon the heart. Brethren be serious about your salvation and be eager to see your Father who loved you so much and still loves you and will always love you.
In Matthew 5:48 Christ exhalts for us to go unto perfection," Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." Christ has been waiting so long for the manifestation of Himself in his church and people to puffed up with pride seek not to die to self and sin and have seeked to attain God's righteousness as a Free gift. For our faith shall justify us. We are saved by grace through faith.
Romans 3:28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Wonderful pieces of scripture like this that we are to believe by faith, these are all promises of God and how wonderful to claim them and we call what God has given to us to be a burden and to be grievous. It is a great faith building experience to claim God's promises and see that they are TRUE! Hallelujah! Amen!!
In te end of time the person to destroy will be the Destroyer, Satan. In 1 Peter 5:8 Paul says; " 8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" Satan is looking to devour as many as possible to die with him and if we love life and God we stay away from those very things Satan wants us to draw nigh unto. Draw nigh unto God, brethren He will always lead you the right way. Why? Because HIS love passeth all understanding.
Revelation 9:5
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
For that long a time period in the last days shall Satan torture the people who have chosen his government of SIN and heed to evil instruction.
Revelation 16:18
18And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
These are last days events brethren caused by our sin, our terrible sin that has separated us from God and leaves us up to our choice and then shall our sins kill us.
Revelation 14:9,10
9And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Now we see that fire and brimstone shall torment those people who chose Satan's government of sin, but they are not destroyed by God for it said destroyed in the presence OF God. Man through sin has killed his ownself. Psalm 34:21 says:" The evil shall slay the wicked"
Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed themselves not God. Whenever we see in the Bible God destroys we have to understand by what mechanism. It is not by any direct act of God, but it is that terrible separation caused by sin whereas God has no choice but to leave us up to our own choice and reap the consequences. So God's Wrath = Separation caused by sin= to them being destroyed. So brethren be ye ready for the Lord's return for we know not the hour but we should know the hour of our visitation and to watch unto prayer so that we sin not against God. God be with you and remember without Him ye can do nothing. John 15:5
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