Suffering Loss

YES!!!! A born-again believer will never lose their salvation but they will suffer a loss of rewards if they do not obey God. And, continual disobedience may be a sign they were never born again to begin with.

1 Corinthians 3:14-16 "…14If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. 16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?…"

Matthew 7:21-23

I Never Knew You

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

Matthew 13:28-30 "…28‘ An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ 29 ‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First, collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’ ”…"

In these last days it is difficult to tell the difference between the wheat and the tares because the wheat have allowed too much of the world into their hearts. They have been decided by false preaching and devilish tactics.

Matthew 24:24 "For there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

Those who live a lifestyle of sin and have no conscience about it are likely not born again. Those who have been fooled by false teaching might be saved.

In the case of those who have no conscience over sin, they must repent becoming born again if they are to see Christ and heaven. For those who have been deceived, they must confess their sin and begin seeking Christ once again as they did in the beginning.

Revelation 2:4-6 "…4 But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. 5 Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 6 But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate."

When God removes the lampstand from a church or a person, He is not removing their salvation but it is a disgrace to them that He is removing their witness. They are useless for the Kingdom and have lost rewards in heaven.

This has been the case in the United States, God has removed our lampstand, we are in disgrace as a nation. Even though our nation has never been fully Christian there have been many Christians here who carried the word of God to the world.

In these last days, the last two generations have perverted the gospel of Christ replacing it with a social gospel placing Christ second to their human agendas of living a cushy happy life. They have turned worship services into laugh fests to entertain the patrons.

Also remember that God disciplines those He loves.

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"

It was God Who shut down the churches because their lamp was extinguished. Those who ran the apostate churches would silence and run off anyone who would bring the truth of correction from the Word of God.

We have a mess in our country that cannot be fixed except when individuals confess their sinfulness and desire to be cleansed by Christ. Only He can cleanse a wicked heart. All they have to do is confess and trust in Him.

John 14:5-7 "5 “Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”…"

Hebrews 12:7-9 "…7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?…"

Gaslighting is Increasing

As the world grows darker and more wicked we will see gaslighting increase, many people use it regularly.

It is emotional abuse and those who do it should be avoided. These people are beyond disrespectful without love and honor.

Some of the tactics of those who gaslight others are as follows:

Lying

Discrediting you through gossip

Blaming you and others for their own behavior

Trivialize your feelings, thoughts, actions, and successes

Accusing others of what the gaslighter is doing and the others are not.

Changing the recollections of conversations, very different from what was actually said.

When shown proof the gaslighter was wrong they continue to deny it anyway even with proof.

Gaslighters remain silent when confronted with their own behavior when they cannot come up with a good lie to refute it.

The purpose of the gaslighting is to cause the target to become insecure and insignificant. Why? Because the gaslighter is very insecure and must feel superior at all times. They do this only to those they are jealous of and they believe is beneath them, or more accurately they want their target to feel less than them.

These gaslighters attempt to make you look crazy through our reactions to their foolishness. The best thing to do is not to react, but even when you are calm they will accuse you anyway because they are liars.

I once had a very angry man accuse me of being angry when he was clearly the angry one. I calmly told him I disagreed with him. He sat in a chair, legs crossed, leg swinging, arms cross, and face turning red when out of his mouth came the words; "you seem angry."

When you encounter this more than once with the same person you can be sure this is a character flaw that is not going to go away. We cannot change their behavior by telling them or exposing them, because they deny everything they do.

However we can love them from afar and pray for God to work in them. However, we must also pray for ourselves to be strong enough not to react or retaliate toward those who act badly.

Telling the truth may be useful for others in the room who may observe what is going on, but often if you are alone you can choose not to respond when you are attacked verbally.

When we see these things happening, hopefully early on in the relationships, so that we can avoid contact with the gaslighter.

Kind loving people do not gaslight, they are truthful and honest as a lifestyle. Those who gaslight do it also as a lifestyle.

Romans 16:17-18 "17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them. 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the naive.…"

There are many ways for someone to be divisive, gaslighting is only one of them.

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Christian Response to the Cancel Culture | Prophetic Perspectives #137

Listen to the Holy Spirit not to Men

So many restrictions are being placed on church gatherings and on speech these days, one has to wonder what is next.

I wonder if the authorities will bother with outlawing the Bible, after all, most churches are not actually following it anyway. OR, perhaps God will take it away because it is being misused constantly.

I am convinced God removed the ten commandments from the schools because they were being ignored, not bringing anyone to Christ. Perhaps all they were doing was making people feel self-righteous about how good they think they have become.

God has shut everything down to show us the futility of our foolish activities. Our parties, our ball games, our gambling, and bars which promote every form of immorality. Its all been shut down, yes and it was God Who did it using wicked people to close their own wicked ways, thinking it was for their health.

Even the schools that promote rebellion against parents while teaching children to enjoy sin have been closed.

God has done this using wicked people. Do not think for one minute it was merely a plan of a government, it was God using the rebellion of a government to destroy their own economy because of the widespread rebellion against Him.

When we tell God "we don't want you anymore", He simply He will withdraw and let us have our own way.

that will destroy us as a nation.

Many of the demonstrators who say they are conservative have no desire to obey God in their own lives, they only want to "appear" as though they are righteous but they defy more of God's Word than they obey.

Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘ These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”…"

This country is so perverted in its thinking now it depends on psychology rather than the Bible, it elevates preachers to a special status above others in the church while paying them a salary to make sure they stay. WHY? Because the men of the church will not take turns teaching, preaching, and praying for wisdom to lead in plurality. It is laziness on the part of the men to want to sit in the pew, half-asleep while the hireling does all the work.

These ways are against God's ways, the system is seriously broken leading many people astray into false doctrine by men who see their position in the church as a job rather than a serious calling to guide the sheep while being accountable to God first and then to the rest of the gathering.

The preachers now see themselves as above others, rather than servants of them. They are arrogant, self-absorbed and pleasure-seeking in their comic delivery acts on that stage.

Flippantly using the Word as a prop to entertain the people while twisting what's in it to fit with the culture. This my friend is the state of the modern church, apostate and foolish.

1 Timothy 4:1

"Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,"

Galatians 1:8-9

"But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed."

Beware that you walk with Christ and not with man, especially in these last days of apostasy and deception. Do not allow anyone to intimidate you to question your decision to follow the Holy Spirit instead of men. The days are evil and there will be very few men who are preaching and teaching led by the Holy Spirit.

The Tipping Point: Rebellion in the Church has Caused This!

This is happening because this country has rejected God while endorsing every form of sin without a conscience.

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When God Orders Even the Devil Obeys

A very poor woman called a Christian radio station asking for help. A bad, evil man who was listening to this radio program decided to make something out of it. He got her address, called his secretary and ordered her to buy food and take to the woman with the following instruction., "when the woman asks who sent the food, tell her that its from the devil.'' When she arrived, the woman was so happy and she started putting the food inside. The Secretary asked her, ''don't you want to know who sent the food''?? The woman answered. ''NO , it doesn't matter, because when GOD orders, even the devil obeys." The secretary broke into tears.