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The "Falling Away" Isn't What You Might Think

2 Thessalonians 2:3 tells us that the falling away must happen before the antichrist is revealed. This falling away is not the apostasy of the church, even though that is happening now, it is the rapture.

Born-again believers must be taken out before the antichrist is revealed. Also, we are not looking for the antichrist we are looking for our blessed hope which is Jesus Christ.

Luke 21:27-29 "…27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” 29 Then Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.…"

So in conclusion born-again believers are not looking for the antichrist, we are looking for Christ'scoming in the clouds to take us home, we are looking up.

I can't express fully my joy at knowing these things and being able to enjoy them with my brothers and sisters on Facebook. I am blessed with friends who love the Lord and share my same beliefs about this matter of the rapture of the church.

Proverbs 18:24 "

"A man that hath friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

Test Yourself to see if you are in the Faith

If a person who calls themselves Christian finds it burdensome and having to walk around on eggshells to be kind, loving, giving, and considerate of the hearts of others then we have met someone who thinks they are a Christian but who has never been born again.

When Christ changes us into a new creation we love the things of God. We love to bless others with the fruit of Christ's Spirit and we are ashamed of ourselves when we fail to walk in love.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

The first fruit in this list of character qualities of Christ is love, all the other elements of the fruit flow from this one quality, which is the deep deep love of Jesus Christ.

If someone finds walking in this fruit as a struggle and burdensome to them then they are not indwelt with the Holy Spirit. What comes naturally before a person is born again is to fight to be superior while any good actions are wrapped in a drivenness to be seen as good but are rotten.

Matthew 23:27-28

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."

When we walk in the Spirit because Christ has changed us into a new creation our new nature loves to walk in the fruit of the Spirit. We can do nothing else it is our nature and we are compelled to obey God because of our love for Him. We hate the fleshly nature that used to dwell in us and love the new nature of all His fruit which is Christ Jesus.

Psalm 103:17–18

"But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments."

John 15:13 "13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Romans 8:37-39

"37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

No one can understand the depth of God's love or walk in it without the Holy Spirit living in them. Many people have joined the Christian church who do not have this Holy Spirit, therefore they pervert the truths of God in His Word leaving a terrible witness in the world. These are rebellious unsaved people pretending to be Christians but have never been born again.

May each one reading this evaluate themselves to see if they are truly saved.

John 3:1-21 tells us what it means to be born again and how we get there. Anyone who is unsure of their salvation because they do not have the fruit of the Spirit must confess their sin and ask to be changed by Christ into a new creation.

Worship in Spirit and in Truth

John 4:24
"24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The truth is what we know but cannot see based on faith.

The Spirit you know we cannot see based on faith.

Christ is the Spirit Who lives in the born-again believer.

Christ is the Truth Who lives in the born-again believer.

Our worship is not based on what we do, rituals or mantras, it is based on Christ Who lives in us.

John 14:6
"6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 15:5
"5 I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing."

Romans 8:34
"Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us."

1 John 2:1 "1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;"

We can do nothing in and of ourselves that pleases God, only Christ in us pleases Him and we are accepted because we trusted in Christ and He does the work in us. He gets the glory.

Hebrews 1:3
"And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,"

It is good to remind one another that Jesus Christ is the essence of His Own Word, to negate the Bible, His Word, is to negate Him.

Wow!!!Just Wow!!!

Jesus Christ is coming very soon, we are watching the insanity prophecies in the Bible increasing every day. We are the witnesses of the fulfilled prophesy of Daniel and Revelation as well as 2 Timothy 3.

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

“The hand that rocks the cradle rules a nation”, the mother is very important to the development of the character of the child in their early years. The first 2 years of a child’s life shape their attitude for the rest of their life. Whatever happens in the first two years determines the entire rest of their lives.

However, children who are raised without a father tend to have many more problems in their years later in life. Fathers are the balance between tenderness and diligence. The mothers tend to be too tender at times when the child needs a stronger hand to teach them to be diligent. I have seen the reverse of this too when the fathers were far too lenient and the mothers tougher, but generally, it is the women who pamper their children and the fathers who are not taking a role at all, leaving the children frustrated and undisciplined.

Both parents are necessary for the raising of Children. We see far more overly sensitive and immature men than in past generations because they have been raised by single mothers. The women are also immature in our children's generation.

Men have become more immature at later ages now because of the mothers who do not take a strong enough hand and who indulge their children, not enough rules and not enough hardship to cause the children to be able to handle difficult things. Adult children are woefully emotionally immature now.

In our day mothers tend to want to bail their children out of everything that is a little uncomfortable, they gush over feelings causing the children to focus almost entirely on themselves and their feelings rather than learning to analyze matters to learn good lessons.

When we were a children if we got in trouble at school we would get disciplined at home for it. Now the parents go to the school and defend their out-of-control child railing against the teachers. The children of these parents learn that being unruly works for them.

As one person once said; “we are not raising children, we are raising men and women.” When we say things like “let them be children” we are causing them to act like children all their lives. What children need is parents who will train them from the beginning of their childhood how to be adults. We do this by example and by training. Everything that happens in the child's life is a training time.

Deuteronomy 6:7

"You shall talk of them when you are sitting in your home, and when you are walking along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up."

Everything we do with our children ought to be teaching and training not merely play. What so many people don't understand is that when we do it God's way the child grows up to love learning and become self-motivated to accomplish good things. Playing and pleasure is not very important to the self-motivated person. We love to work, we love to accomplish things that have a purpose or that are lasting. Playing is boring and wasteful of time for those who are self-motivated.

The self-esteem doctrine has caused the entire culture to pamper children to the point of ad-nausea, creating selfish adult people who rage at the slightest suggestion that they need a character adjustment. Correction is treated as a personal attack as the one who needs to learn a lesson fights against the one who cares about them.

Notice that children now have more things to do but are less happy. I believe its because the things they are doing are not producing anything. When someone is finished with their play, the thrill of it is gone, they have to find some more play to stay happy. The self-motivated person who loves projects is never bored and is much happier.

Children who are indulged in feelings and pampered to bail themselves out of trouble instead of facing it to find solutions will be terrible adults and terrible spouses, not to mention entitled members of society. Instead of "giving back" they will take and take and take while fighting anyone who doesn't give them what they want.

We see this mentality represented in the riots that occurred in the present years. People who didn't even know why they were angry burned down five miles of a town in Minnesota in a rageful uproar as they torched five miles of Minneapolis.

James 1:20

"For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God."

Proverbs 16:32

"Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city."

Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it”

It is not a guarantee that if we obey God our children will too. It is a general principle that generally produces fruit. The child must still believe the parent and heed the words of God to become the adult they should be, it is still their choice.

It has been my experience that many parents did a good job teaching the right things and the children were under control at home, but after leaving home they went the way of the world because their hearts were not changed. They obeyed their parents to keep from being punished or to impress their parents but when they were free from the home their true hearts emerged.

This is the reason I never felt worried about my children leaving my home to be on their own. I knew that the true self would come out good or bad, then we would see who they really were all the while they were under our care. People learn to hide their real selves when under the authority of someone else.

We as parents cannot change our children's hearts. We can only do the right thing, showing them the right way and when they leave home we will see if their heart was what it appeared to be while they were at home.

Another Way to Share the Gospel

Someone asked me the question if the was another way to share the gospel if I am afraid to do it verbally. The following response was my answer;

If you are afraid to share the gospel then you are ashamed of Christ. We must love Christ more than we love ourselves. When we fear to share the gospel we are afraid of the reaction of the people we are speaking to, instead of concerned about what Christ thinks.

We must reject all “people pleasing” if we are to follow and obey Christ. There will be many who hate us for telling them what will save them from hell. It is irrational that they would not see the love involved in the warning but they are not saved and don’t want Christ if they are angry, we need not take that personally. They did it to Christ and the apostles, we will be treated this way too.

We are only intimidated when we are self-focused.

**John 15:18-25**

**Disciples’ Relation to the World**

18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before *it hated* you.

19 If you were of the world, the world would love *you as* its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also.

21 But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have

sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 The one who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

25 But *this has happened* so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me for no reason.’”

My suggestion is to deny yourself, when you do this you will not care how people treat you. We can be more loving, more forthright and speak more boldly when Christ is our focus rather than the people in front of us.

The more I spoke to people about Christ, the more I was rejected the less I felt anything about their rejection. When someone rages at me now I feel nothing, no fear, no hurt and no timidity. When we get to the point where we don't care if we are liked by men then we can be used of God and remain steady, faithful, and even joyful in the midst of everything.