Beware of this Trending Delusion: Selective Dismissal Deception
First off, like calvinism, dispensationalism is a cult based upon an extra-biblical, super imposed theology invented by men.
HOW do you know if someone is imposing something upon the Scripture text they are reading from IF you haven’t personally, organically, thoroughly studied the whole of God’s Word for yourself? You don’t.
Recently, a lady told me that Jesus was a dispensationalist. My reply was: In what manner is Jesus a dispensationalist? You did not get that from the Bible yourself. This is something someone told you to believe, told you to view the Bible through the lens of. And that’s how Satan completely deceives people. It’s an extra-biblical system imposed upon the Scriptures by sinful men.
Selectively Dismissing Parts of the New Testament Scriptures
Dispensational devils are teaching their prey that certain parts of the New Testament don’t apply to New Testament believers.
If God presided over what was included in the New Testament canon of Holy Scripture, and He certainly did, then it all applies to all Christ’s disciples – from Matthew 1:1 to Revelation 22:21.
Instead of synthesizing “ALL scripture,” some have chosen to take it upon themselves to “decide” what parts of the Bible and New Testament apply to Christ’s people and which ones don’t (2 Timothy 3:16). God is unchanging and gave no mere man permission to do such. In fact, He told us that whoever dared add to or take away from His words would have their name removed from the book of life (Revelation 22:18-19).
No Greek or Hebrew is needed and is certainly not the main rule of interpretation. We must take God’s preserved Word for what it clearly states in our own language, as we compile, compound, put together Scripture with Scripture (Isaiah 28:16; 1 Corinthians 2:13). This is the method of priority in apprehending truth, the highest, stated rule of interpreting truth. A thorough gathering of all Scripture pertaining to the given study, is essential.
Being crucified with Christ means one is emptied of self, self-will, self-agenda, and abandoned to God’s will (Philippians 2). This means that such a person searches out and embraces the biblical truth, no matter where it leads. He never bends the truth to try to fit a tradition or doctrine but rather reject any previous believed notion when the Word says differently (Romans 3:4; 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:15-17, etc.).
God sovereignly decided, all by Himself, exactly what He wanted in His New Testament canon (Psalms 12:6-7). Any mere man adding to or taking away anything from it, under any circumstance, will have their name removed from the book of life (Revelation 22:18-19).
Here’s how the spirit of antichrist works: “If we don’t like what it says, we’ll find a way to dismiss our accountability to it.”
Is this not the same thing with have with the proliferation of fake “bibles” today? Counterfeits who refuse to truly repent and obey God at His Word drop the real Bible (KJB) and migrate to corrupted “bibles.” This casting doubt on God’s Word and changing of it began with Satan in the Garden and continues today (Genesis 2:17; 3:1, 3:4). Adam and Eve, like many betrayers today identified in this post, acquiesced to the will of Satan.
Like the serpent in the Garden (Satan), snakes have slithered into that which is supposed to be the place of worshipping God and are hissing their lies from seminary and local “church” platforms. Beware saints.
Have you seen this alarming trend of eternal security evangelicals selectively dismissing the application of the book of Hebrews to non-Jewish born again believers? More on Hebrews in a moment.
Recently, I received an attack message from a man who went through mountains of reasons that much of the New Testament Scriptures don’t apply to us. Here’s was the reply:
“You have gone to great lengths to dismiss accountability to the LORD, by numerous deceptive acrobatics and yet claim it’s rightly dividing the Word of truth. You are kidding no one except yourself and only seek to evade truly repenting and dying to self. The Judge standeth before the door and sees exactly what you are doing (James 5:7-9).”
If the fraud you call “pastor” is dismissing your personal accountability to the whole Word of God, rebuke that devil and run if he refuses to repent!
At the dinner table, every good parent teaches their children to eat ALL their food – everything on their plate. God is the perfect Father and He commands everyone that names the name of Christ study, learn, and obey “ALL” of His Word!
“ALL scripture” was given to each of us to teach us “doctrine”, to reprove, to correct, and to instruct us in His way.
“ALL scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17
How can Christ’s followers of this late hour be “throughly furnished” without “ALL scripture”? Are there only 26 books in the New Testament that apply to born again saints who are of Gentile background? No! There are 27 and that includes the book of Hebrews!
The fact that Jesus is speaking to the believers, the pastors, the church at Ephesus, Smyrna, Laodicea, etc. in Revelation 2 and 3, in no way negates what He said. It all applies to EVERY one of His disciples throughout the New Testament era and that’s why God had it put in His Word! it is self-evident that Those who teach otherwise are absolutely wolves!
Eternal Security is the Golden Calf Heresy of False Teachers!
Beware of the Hebrews Heresy where Wolves Claim it’s for the Jewish Believers Only!
Think for a moment of the vile arrogance of those who have decided that any part of God’s Word, especially in the New Testament, can be eliminated and that it doesn’t apply to them or us! Excuse me but WHO gave them permission to say such? Not God!
Either ALL of the book of Hebrews applies to all New Testament saints OR NONE OF IT DOES! Can’t be both.
Consider what we forfeit if we ridiculously believe the vile heretics who are so arrogant that they believe they can pick and choose what applies to them in the Bible, the book of Hebrews. Let’s consider a mere smidgen of the cost of foolishly believing that the book of Hebrews applies only to Jews:
The detailed revelation of how Jesus Christ is greater than and created the angels (Ch 1)
The throne of grace, receiving grace and mercy from above, being washed afresh and continual by the blood of Jesus (4:14-16)
The most powerful passage in the Bible concerning the unique, divine intercession of Christ (7:24-26)
The most profound revelation found in Scripture of the inferior now superseded Old Covenant and the infinitely superior New Covenant (ch’s 8-10).
The most direct command in the whole Bible on the need for fellowship (10:25)
The longest and most powerful discourse in all of the Bible on the essential of faith and the example of the patriarchs’ faith (ch 11)
The most detailed, compelling explanation of the chastening of God (12:5-11)
The most poignant verse in all of God’s Word concerning submission to elders (13:7, 17)
You can’t have it both ways! Either all or none of the book of Hebrews applies to ALL New Testament saints!
The idea that some or all of the glorious book of Hebrews doesn’t apply, isn’t applicable to Gentile New Testament saints, is the work of the little moral coward eternal security devils! Beware! They hate all warnings, or anything that suggests they are personally accountable to repent and confess all sin, to deny self, take up the cross, abide with Christ, endure to the end, and truly follow Jesus!
Dear rebel: Repent you vile sinner! God didn’t give your lame depraved duff the permission to remove any jot or tittle from His Word and promised to remove your name from His book of life if you did (Revelation 22:18-19). If you don’t repent and amend your ways, the lake of fire awaits your sin-sick soul.
There’s an epidemic of false teachers who are now saying that the New Testament book of Hebrews doesn’t apply to non-Jewish believers. Here’s why:
CRUX: These devils want to dismiss the book of Hebrews because there are so many warnings in hebrews and clear truth that exposes their golden calf OSAS/ETERNAL SECURITY LIE!
Counterfeits invent ways to excuse themselves from accountability to Scripture. Though they regularly and selectively refer to and read the Old Testament Scriptures, when you quote or read them Holy Scripture from the Old Testament to expose OSAS, they will scream “but that’s Old Testament!” Nice try. But “ALL scripture” is given to New Testament saints and we are told that we are taught by those very Scriptures (2 Timothy 3:17; Romans 15;4; 1 Corinthians 10:11). Also, this same truth as is taught in the passage below, is also taught and confirmed all over the New Testament and from Genesis to Revelation.
“Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.” Ezekiel 33:11-13
To say that the book of Hebrews was only meant for disciples with a Jewish background would be like saying that the letters of Jesus to the 7 churches of Asia were only meant for Asian believers or the people on those churches He was specifically addressing. Total heresy! If that were the case WHY did God put these things in His Word?
Repent!
The book of Hebrews is in the New Testament canon for all believers to obey. We can’t selectively dismiss the parts we don’t like.
God gave no man authority to dismiss His Word as it suits their unrepentant hearts.
FACT: God had everything He wanted put into the 27 book canon of the New Testament and it all applies to ALL believers – every single – believer. Even the Old Testament Scriptures teach us – according to the NEW Testament (Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11).
If the Old Testament Scriptures teach and apply to believers, what’s that say for all of the New Testament Scriptures applying to us?
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” Romans 15:4
“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 1 Corinthians 10:11
So, if the Old Testament Scriptures apply to New Testament saints, what’s that say for ALL of the NEW Testament Scriptures? Which ones did God give us authority to remove? Did He not rather warn us that if anyone removes them, their names will be blotted out of His book of life? (Revelation 22:18-19)
The whole New Testament is written to every New Testament saint who is personally accountable to obey it.
Beware of those who act as if they have the divine authority to dismiss Scripture that exposes the lies they’re peddling.
The problem these beguilers have is that the Bible says the same thing over and over – and we are instructed to compare, to collate, to put together Scripture with Scripture (1 Corinthians 2:13).
Parroting the Professors
God despises and Satan loves centralizing “education.” Think: Tower of Babel (Genesis 11). Seminaries is not a part of the New Testament church Jesus is building. No, instead, seminaries are an attack upon Christ and His body!
Fact: There was not one seminary in the New Testament Scriptures, the recorded history of the earliest followers of Christ. God has not changed. No one needs so-called “professors” to read and learn the Bible! The local gathering of believers is where diligent study of God’s Word is to transpire! (Acts 2:42; Colossians 3:16, etc.)
The eternal security beguilers HATE the book of Hebrews and so they must attack it. The book of Hebrews was written to “holy BRETHREN” which includes all believers in Christ, not just those with a Jewish background!
Here’s a verse below from a passage in Hebrews that clearly exposes these selective dismissal deceivers. They have to attack the application of Hebrews, saying it only applies to the Jewish Christians. Yet they selectively use Hebrews to teach other doctrines. They want to pick and choose what parts of the Bible apply to believers according to their own darkened, rebellious hearts …..
“Of how much sorer punishment (more severe), suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” Hebrews 10:29
If you are washed in Christ’s “BLOOD” this applies to you. Irrefutably, here in Hebrews 10 (and other places), the Bible clearly reveals that those who are washed in “the BLOOD” and then go back on God, backslide, will receive “much sorer punishment” in hell. Jesus taught the same of false leaders when He told them they’d be receiving “greater damnation.” (Matthew 23:14; Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47)
Another major problem they have with seeking to dismiss the above truth and who it applies to is that the same truth appears in 2 Peter 2:20-22 – which reveals the greater eternal suffering of those who were once born again and then backslid and died in sin.
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” 2 Peter 2:20-22
These same spineless “pastors” refuse to teach the cross and that’s because they aren’t crucified with Christ themselves (cross-less, lawless antinomians). They are full of self, self-agenda. Paul exposes this specifically:
“(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly (selfish appetites), and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)” Philippians 3:18-19
The same frauds who claim the book of Hebrews doesn’t apply to Gentile saints conveniently use many other parts of this same book of Hebrews. Total hypocrites. These same “pastors” freely use verse from Hebrews such as this one:
“And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” Hebrews 10:24-25
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together” (Hebrews 10:25) – So, are Gentile saints to assemble together OR does this also only apply to the Jews? According to these same wolves, this divinely ordained instruction, this divine command, isn’t applicable because it appears in the book of Hebrews which only applies to Jewish Christians. Right? Wrong! You can’t have it both ways! Either all or none of the book of Hebrews applies to ALL believers in Christ! Repent.
What about this one below? How many of these same beguilers preach this? All of them:
“Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.” Hebrews 13:7
So if the warnings of the book of Hebrews aren’t applicable to Gentiles believers, neither are the other verses in Hebrews, right? WRONG!
These OSAS pansies are always lying to escape truly getting real with God – true repentance and fruit bearing. So, one of the things they do is write-off Jesus’ teaching as only applying to the Jews. And the book of Hebrews and James. But they have a huge problem – because JESUS’ holy apostles taught the same thing!
These are clearly false teachers. The commands of Christ, including the requirement to endure to the end are found throughout the New Testament, being taught of His holy apostles – which is called “the apostles doctrine” in Acts 2:42. Also, Jesus told all 7 CHURCHES in Asia minor (not Jewish) that they had to overcome or they would not be with Him (Revelation 2-3).
These are ministers of Satan himself (2 Corinthians 11:12-15). We know this because you, as “ungodly men” (Jude 4), they are spreading the very first lie of Satan himself (Genesis 2:17; 3:4).
ASK THEM: Tell us all why the Holy Ghost didn’t mean exactly what HE said here:
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” 2 Peter 2:20-21
TO a wolf who says the book of Matthew is not applicable to New Testament saints who aren’t Jewish, I replied:
You are a deceiver who has allowed others to mislead you. Only an arrogant con man believes he has the right to decide what parts of the Bible, namely the New Testament, believers are to obey. God gave no man permission to decide this. You are taking away from God’s Word with no divine permission. And you were warned by Christ about this very thing and the consequences:
Revelation 22:18-19
Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
If the book of Matthew doesn’t apply to all New Testament believers, 1. why is it in the New Testament canon, and 2. I guess that means no beatitudes right? Matthew 5-7
Jesus Calling Devotional Exposed: 10 Things You Might Not Know
“I know so many who are so deceived by this book!! The author is a woman and she makes Jesus sound like your boyfriend who is so in love with you he can’t bare a minute without you! It is sickening! Plus she says the Bible was not enough for her. She needed more. This author died and if she did repent of her blasphemy against a holy God she is burning in hell as we speak.” Karen Cochran
BEWARE of the Jesus Calling devotional book which is written by a full blown heretic, Sarah Young. This book continually assures things to lost souls (catholics, etc.) reserved only for the true Christian. It promises salvation, assurance, grace, mercy, the glory of God, etc to lost hell bound idolatrous sinners. Like antichrist Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life book, Jesus Calling never calls sinners to repent which is a Gospel essential and without which God will never save any soul from sin and hell (Luke 13:3, 5). You will never hear Jesus’ born again commanded or command to repent in this heretical devotional book title Jesus Calling. This monstrosity simply confirms sinners in their sin, sealing their doom in the lake of fire (Jeremiah 23:17; Lamentations 2:14, etc.).
Sarah Young is just another self-willed false prophet who does “ministry” her way, not God’s, in order to sell books and to mislead eternal souls into eternal damnation.
The blessings of God in Christ’s salvation are reserved only for those born again “in Christ,” and never for hell bound religious idolaters (John 15:7; 2 Corinthians 1:20; 2 Peter 1:1-4, etc.).
Stacy Strother writes:
“Her subtly, deceptive, doctrinally corrupt fairy tale version of what she calls bible studies for all the different ages of people, including children’s bible studies, teen and other, are found in the book stores—shelves filled full.
She is deceived, a false witness, False bible teacher, and has not heard from our Jesus—the Christ, Son of the living God, of which, is the very Word of God.
She hears from demons. Period! She needs to REPENT, and be born again! Please Lord Jesus, help her see her own demise!”
About That Jesus Calling – 10 Things You Might Not Know
ARE you seeking to experience God OR to KNOW HIM? (John 17:3)
“People want a word from God instead of the Word OF God.” Warren Smith
by Lighthouse Trails Editors
1. Did you know that Sarah Young says she had been inspired by the “Jesus” of a book called God Calling?
2. Did you know that Christian publisher Harvest House’s book TheEncyclopedia of New Age Beliefs says that God Calling is an example of a channeled New Age book “replete with denials of biblical teaching”?1
3. Did you know that the “Jesus” of God Calling teaches that God is “in” everyone?
4. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling contradicts the Jesus of the Bible?
5. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling rejects the Jesus of the Bible’s warnings about the future and tells us to “laugh” at the future?
6. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling frequently flatters his followers, which contrasts the way Jesus Christ spoke to people?
7. Did you know that Sarah Young’s “Jesus” revises the night that Jesus Christ was born and calls it a “dark night” in a “filthy stable” in “appalling conditions” even though the Bible says the shepherds rejoiced in all that they had seen that night? 2
8. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling revises the accounts of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph of the Bible?
9. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling encourages his followers to practice contemplative “listening” prayer and to have a “buffer zone of silence” with no warning about seducing spirits?3
10. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling emphasizes New Age terms and concepts throughout the book?
The 10 points above have been taken from Warren B. Smith’s new book, “Another Jesus” Calling. This book provides valuable information that can help you warn your family and friends how the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling contradicts the biblical Jesus.
Notes:
1. John Ankerberg & John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1996), p. 103.
2. Sarah Young, Jesus Calling, p. 376.
3. Jesus Calling, June 15th entry
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Billy Graham Still Sending Converts Back to the Pope
Billy Graham. We know that his messages are solid gospel. Few in or out of the Christian World have not heard of him. Since 1949 he has held the spotlight as the most prominent evangelist in Christendom. He has just finished his 416th crusade in Pasadena, California that drew over 300,000 people in four days. 13,000+ responded to his altar calls. Graham is now 86 years old and has one more crusade scheduled in New York City next year, health permitting.
The Pasadena crusade was on the anniversary of his first Los Angeles revival 55 years ago. It was after that meeting that Graham was “kissed by William Randolph Hearst” according to Dr Cathy Burns in her book, Billy Graham and His Friends. This meant that Hearst had decided to promote Graham’s ministry in his nationwide chain of newspapers.
Immediately, reporters and photographers were crawling all over the Graham meetings. Front page articles began to appear in the leading local papers wherever Graham held meetings. One reporter was assigned full time to travel with Graham’s team.
In 1991, Graham claimed that this sudden attention remained a mystery. Burns describes a more complex scenario. Regardless, the publicity propelled Graham into the national, if not international, limelight.
Jesus warned, “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.” Over the years, Graham became the friend of presidents and kings, a beloved “America’s Pastor.”
But the fame came with a price. In his book, Smokescreens, written in 1983, Jack Chick describes how Roman Catholic leaders viewed and used Graham as a key player in their ecumenical plans. As early as 1965, he was a guest speaker at Catholic Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina where he received an honorary doctor’s degree. A college official’s letter describes Graham’s address as “theologically sound” as may have been given by “any other Catholic preacher.” The letter further states, “I would state that he could bring Catholics and Protestants together in a healthy ecumenic spirit.” Graham was also speaking at several other Catholic colleges at that time.
This prediction was fully realized. In Smokescreens, Chick shows various illustrations. In 1971 Graham is shown meeting with Oakland, California, Catholic Bishop Floyd Begin who lauded Graham’s ministry. In 1972 he received a Franciscan Friars’ award for true ecumenism. In 1979 Graham praised the pope as a “moral and spiritual leader that believes in something.”
In 1981 he was closeted for almost two hours with Pope John Paul II. After the 1982 New England crusade, thousands of those who went forward for salvation were turned over to Catholic clergy for follow-up.
And this hasn’t changed. Before the Pasadena crusade this year, The Tidings, official newspaper for the Los Angeles diocese, reported that Cardinal Mahony had written to parish priests to encourage their members to attend the crusade.
Crusade officials bragged that they had “a marvelous agreement” with Graham to give all registration cards to the diocese, of the inquirers who identified themselves as Catholic. The object was to “reincorporate Catholic Crusade participants back into full sacramental life in the Catholic Church.” “This is ecumenicity at it finest,” said Alexei Smith, Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer for the archdiocese.
There is no doubt that hundreds of thousands have been swept into the kingdom during the Graham crusades. But how tragic that so many who responded to Graham’s call to salvation were then sent back to the spiritual bondage and pagan rituals of the pope’s prostitute church?
Jack Chick concludes the Smokescreens chapter: “Yes, beloved. Billy Graham, as much as I love him and hate to say it, I believe was cleverly used as a smokescreen and as a pied piper for the whore of Revelation.”
In Graham’s 1952 Pittsburgh crusade, the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph reported that Graham said:
“Many of the people who reach a decision for Christ at our meetings have joined the Catholic Church and we have received commendations from Catholic publications for the revived interest in their Church following our campaigns. This happened both in Boston and Washington. After all, one of our prime purposes is to help the churches in a community. If after we move on, the local (sic) churches do not feel the efforts of these meetings in increased membership and attendance, then our crusade would have to be considered a failure.” [Emphasis in the original.]
Did you notice that Graham was only interested in a church’s increased membership-but nothing was said about a person receiving Christ as his or her personal Lord and Savior. This is what is important-not church membership! Church membership could increase a 1000-fold but if people are not being saved, then all is in vain.
Graham also gave a boost to the Catholic Church (in 1952) when he added that he “hoped to hear Bishop Fulton J. Sheen at one of the masses at St. Paul’s Cathedral tomorrow. ” [Emphasis in the original.]
“In 1968, Graham was in a meeting in San Antonio, Texas. He said that the Roman Church had given ‘tremendous cooperation’ in areas where he had held crusades. He added, ‘A great part of our support today comes from Catholics. We never hold a crusade without priests and nuns being much in evidence in the audience.”
By 1973 nuns were singing in the choir at Graham’s crusades.
Continuing on with Graham’s ecumenical outlook, the June 10, 1966 issue of Time said that volunteers “will tactfully receive those stepping forward to make a decision for Christ, [and] steer them to the nearest church of their chosen denomination….”
In Poland in 1978, “Graham taught nuns and priests how to evangelize. A picture taken at the famous Polish Shrine of the Black Madonna shows Graham welcoming pilgrims to the worship of their Virgin.”
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The wise virgin saints are keeping their lamps full of divine oil, they are taking personal responsibility for their own spiritual state with Christ the great and soon coming Bridegroom. Read Matthew 25:1-13.
“The Love of Many Shall Wax Cold”
“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matthew 24:10-14
Did you notice in verse 14 that those who hot for Jesus are participating in the preaching of His Word to the end of the earth (Mark 16:15).
Anyone not devouring God’s Word daily is falling away, is not enduring to the end, is choosing the let their love for Jesus wax cold, and on the wrong, the losing end of this prophecy Jesus gave here on record in Matthew 24:10-14.
“I will spue (vomit, reject) thee out of my mouth”
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:” Revelation 3:16-17
Praying God will help you love Him more (Matthew 22:37-40). It really all boils down to WHO we love most. THAT is exactly who we are serving (Romans 6:16).
Loving God is everything as far as what’s in our control – because it’s a choice, daily, and will determine if one remains in Christ to the end.
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40
“Thou hast left thy first love”
“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” Revelation 2:4-5
1. When you are choosing not to spend quality time with God in prayer each and every morning… When you are choosing not to spend quality time with God in His Word each and every morning (Luke 9:23-24; 1 Chronicles 16:11).
2. When your love for God’s people is being reduced instead of increased (Philippians 2:12-13; 1 John 5:1) Marks of the True Christian …. “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; 11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;” (Romans 12:9-11) See John 13:35.
“And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. 21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.” Luke 8:20-21
“We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.” 1 John 3:14
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” 1 John 5:1
Reading 1 Corinthians 13 today will refresh your heart and mind on the divine importance placed upon LOVE.
3. You are not denying self and not taking up the cross daily (Luke 9:23-24; 19:27; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3, etc.).
4. You aren’t communicating the light of truth to others because you no longer seek or fear the LORD and so His divine virtue isn’t teeming in and flowing out of you. Your cup no longer runs over but instead is running empty (Psalms 23). You have a lampshade over the light and are not letting His light shine in and through your life and words… “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” (Isaiah 58:1)
5. You live in fear instead of faith and the joy of being with Jesus (Luke 21:28; 1 John 4:16-18; Proverbs 28:1; Psalms 2:11).
6. You preach promises and not conditions…following the apostate modern church and you don’t preach the cardinal doctrines of the original Gospel which we are commanded to “earnest contend for.” (Jude 3) You begin meditating on and living by trends instead of truth (Jeremiah 9:3; 2 Timothy 4:2-4; Philippians 4:8; Romans 12:1-2).
7. You have little or no true fellowship with other born- again Bible believing disciples of Jesus as is defined in God’s Word and not by the modern church world (Acts 2:42).
The Word of God is to run rich, to be abundant among God’s people … “In all wisdom” and “all in the name of the Lord Jesus” … “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.” (Colossians 3:16-17)
8. You know you are backsliding when your main thrust and identity become politics, not the work of the Gospel. YOU are a blood bought disciple of Jesus, not a conservative. You are a Bible believing follower of Christ (Luke 9:62; Galatians 6:14).
9. When you love this world…..When you spend more time and money on hobbies and the things of this fleeting world than you do on attending to knowing, walking with the LORD and preparing to be used of Him (Mark 4:17-19; 1 John 2:15; James 4:4).
10. When you spend more money on trash and trinkets then helping the work of the One you claim to love and the poor. You know you are backslidden when you are not obeying God with what He’s placing in your temporal possession. He shall bring you into full account for this.
Regrettably, people will give their money to any and every pleasure under the sun but make excuses when the opportunity to support the work of the One they claim to love and serve. The Holy Spirit foretold that in the final days before the return of Jesus, there would be those with a mere “form of godliness”, “men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,” and “lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” (2 Timothy 3:1-7) According to the LORD, one of the main ways to measure our true love for Him or lack thereof, is by peering into our personal stewardship of the resources He’s placed into our temporary possession. Luke 12 and 16 offer a plethora of divine wisdom and warning concerning the judgment to come, the judgment we shall endure in giving account for our stewardship in this life.
The clear proof that God is working in our lives, that we are truly following Jesus, is that we are becoming less and less vested in this fleeting, fallen world (James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-17). And that we, our good works, our giving are more and more invested in eternity – in the eternal kingdom of Christ, laying up treasures in Heaven, sending them before us, relinquishing the things of this world for the glory of God – putting them to work for the eternal Gospel of Christ – for saints to be fed and equipped and the lost to hear the Word of God (Matt. 6:19-21).
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 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 6:19-24
To underscore the importance of stewardship, we should realize that 16 of our LORD’s 38 parables involved stewardship. Those who now do not wish to face and confront this truth, are apparently those who are in the most need of hearing it.
PRAYER: Father I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. Please cause my conscience to be super sensitive to Your conviction, Your leading, and to evade all that defiles me in Your holy eyes, sin. Here and now I submit my life afresh to You dear LORD. You must increase but I must decrease. I am crucified with Christ and thank You for conforming me to His holy image. I am all Yours LORD and thank You that You are all mine. I love You Jesus. Please make me one with You and the Father and with Your beloved body. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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