Who Do You Stand With, Christ or the World

In this present day full of arrogant and self-absorbed people we are continually running into people who think we are too radical if we love the Lord Jesus Christ with all our hearts enough to speak His word boldly and live what we believe.

Many people "say" they are "bible believers" but negate more of the Bible than they obey, thinking they are special and compliant for adhering to some of the principles of Jesus Christ while ignoring and twisting others.

Mark 7:13

"13 thereby invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”

The words of God they ignore or malign are the ones they are guilty of violating so they pretend not to see them or worse change their meaning to fit their desired beliefs.

2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires,"

I have not been chastised for not following scripture, but I have been chastised many times for declaring what God said to those who claim to be Christians.

I have not been chastised by unbelievers for using the word of God because they don't know it and have no means of refuting what I say to them. However, I have been treated with contempt and dismissiveness by those who say they are Christians who want to defend their false version of truth to be able to accept the very things God hates.

2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"

We are living in the days of the great apostasy in which the organized church system cares more about pleasing the pew people than they do about obeying Christ.

Isaiah 30:10

They say to the seers, "Stop seeing visions!" and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions."

These are the times we are living in right now as prophesied in Isaiah.

The following passage tells us what to do in these times of rebellion.

2 Timothy 1:13

"Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus."

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult (ragingly insane) Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these.

We are living in the days just like those of Noah when few will want to hear the truth and the laborers are few. We are a small remnant who care about the heart of God. Most people, yes and even in the church gatherings, will follow their own desires and negate God's word to feel justified in their rebellion.

In verse 5 of 2 Timothy 3 we read that the solution for us is to avoid such people who refuse to hear truth while claiming they are Christian. God says they will have a form of godliness but negate His Word in favor of their lust for pleasure and self-exaltation.

Do not become anxious about this brothers and sisters, do not take it personally, they would be mean and rude to anyone who challenges their hypocrisy and lies against God. And, remember too that we are living in our "boot camp" in which we must learn to be strong, for our learning to be able to lead with Christ in the Millennium.

These times of rejection will serve us well as we learn to stand alone with Christ. The most blessed person is the one who can be alone and rejected while being empowered by the Holy Spirit in us to avoid being sucked into the mess of the world.

1 John 2:14-16 "14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.…"

Who do you stand with, the world or with Christ, you cannot do both?

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Transformation not Conversion

God told us to go into the world and preach the gospel to all nations. He never at any time told us to bring the world into the worship time of believers.

The gathering of believers is to worship Christ and to equip the saints for the work of evangelism. When we bring in unbelievers to evangelize them we dilute the message of holiness for those who wish to walk according to God's Word.

Ephesians 4:12-16

12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love."f

After we have preached the gospel to someone and they have trusted in Christ realizing their own sinful nature and repenting from it, they then become born again by the power of the Holy Spirit, not by their own words or their feelings of pain but by the transformation Christ does in them.

Romans 12:2

"2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."

If someone says they converted to Christianity it is likely they were never born again. To convert means someone made the choice to join without the transforming work of Christ.

When we trusted in Christ He transformed us completely changing how we think through the Power of the Holy Spirit Whom He placed in us to be our teacher, our guide and our comforter.

Those who convert to become acceptable to "the club" they think they joined are attempting to please men and their own conscience through good works but are not being led by the Holy Spirit.

This is the reason we have so many deceived pretenders in the church gatherings today, they like the idea of "being a Christian" so they decided to make themselves a better person in the eyes of others.

If there was no brokenness over someone's sinful nature and no desire to be changed by Christ then there is no salvation and no transformation. It is tantamount to the Eve experience in the garden where the devil convinced Eve she could become good enough to be like God.

Those who are converted are still "the world" and do not understand the things of Christ because He does not live in them.

1 Corinthians 2:14 states, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned".

This is the reason we have so much resistance to the truths of the ?Bible within the modern church gatherings. Many people claim they are Bible believers but do not obey Christ in many things. They twist the scriptures to make the words of God mean what they want it to say denying Him as they do it, while claiming they are speaking for Him.

2 Timothy 3:5-7

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these. 6 For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

Notice this is the state of the modern church, they are always learning while denying the truth. They are weak minded and full of pride thinking their pride is the same as strength when it is weakness at it's worst.

Satan teaches the watered-down version of the Bible mixed with psychology to confuse and defraud those who live the pretense of Christianity.

There is a very big clue we can see among those who "converted" rather than being transformed, and that is there seems to be no Spiritual fervor and no desire to grow in holiness. The lifestyle may be somewhat better to fit into the newfound group they desire but it is mechanical and lacks enthusiasm for Christ. Often these people regress back to their old lifestyle while shouting "don't judge" to misguide through intimidation those who are weak in the faith.

May we not shrink back from challenging those who are not growing emotionally and Spiritually. If we love them we want them to be sure of their salvation, if they are not we hope they will ask Christ to change them into a new creation so that they will no longer be pretenders.

Ephesians 2:10

"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."

It is only through transformation by the Holy Spirit that anyone is saved from hell. Conversion in our own minds will never save us, only this life-giving transformation when Christ completely changes the way we think and comes to live in us that we can see heaven.