The Warnings are being Ignored and Mocked

How many times have we as born-again believers warned, and warned, and warned only to be reviled for our love for those we warn. My guess is too many times to count.

"Christian" churches are not concerned about obeying Christ or humbling themselves to be changed by Him. They want only to feel safe and comfortable while remaining loved by the culture around them.

Did you know John the Baptizer was beheaded for telling Herod and Herodius of their adulterous unlawful marriage?

How many of us would be beheaded today if those around us had the power to do it. Since they do not have the power to kill us as they wish they use other tactics to try to destroy us.

The tactics in this modern time is reviling, dismissiveness, mocking, excluding, withholding of affection, gossip, gaslighting, and much more to cause us to become intimidated into silence.

These manipulations to hurt authentic believers are because of the hatred people have toward those who bring the Scriptures to bear on any discussion or problem.

God calls this hatred a form of murder.

1 John 3:14-16 "…14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer. 16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."

John 15:18-25

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 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, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ..."

Never allow those who hate us manipulate you into becoming like them through any response to them except that which is from God through the Holy Spirit.

Bless those who curse you, either with a Holy Spirit correction or refusing to fight with them. Walk away from those who will not listen to the truth of Scripture and who continually cause trouble to insight you. Do not allow them to cause anger in you, do not allow them to provoke an ungodly response. The best thing to do when in the company of a divisive and angry person is to walk away and stay away from them.

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."

This is the mentality of the world around us right now, only we are unsure of what we see because we have been living in it all our lives and want to believe perhaps we are not seeing it right, perhaps there is some good in these people. Because we love to obey Christ and walk in His ways we have a hard time facing that the world as a whole is wicked.

These last days are difficult for us because we hate evil and it is all around us all the time. It plays out in our lives continually as the families are destroyed by the devil and we are reviled for saying so.

These last days are difficult because it is hard to find those who love Christ as much as we do and those who claim they are Christians do not love Him as they say, their words do not match their attitudes of arrogance and revenge.

When we can stand back and see everything for what it is through the lens of the Word of God we can detach, not taking things personally even though we grieve at times as Lot and the prophets of old. They lived their lives primarily alone without much support and grieved and wept over those around them who loved themselves more than they loved God.

The prophets did not grieve over the mistreatment, they grieved over the hearts of people who refused to love God and obey Him. It wasn't about them at all, it was about the heart they had for the lost and their desire for people to listen to their warnings.

Keep warming, keep seeking Christ and learn to be alone in it in these last days where there is little faith left upon the earth.

The Day of Apostasy is here Now!

I find this to be common in our day of apostasy.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

The Great Apostasy

"2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of [b]sin is revealed, the son of perdition,"

The apostasy is here now in our day, many do not recognize it because they have lived in it their entire lives and have never asked God to show them the truth.

"The person God cannot help, the one who does wrong and acts as though it is right." Clifton Jones

We cannot have a discussion with those who will not evaluate their own flaws. Those who can evaluate themselves in honesty will grow and change according to God's principles and not their own ideas of right and wrong.

The culture has no power over those who walk with Christ. Those who walk according to their own ideas to feel special and elevated in the eyes of those around them are helpless and controlled by the culture in which they live.

How to stop being controlled and manipulated by the culture,is to read the word with the desire for the Holy Spirit to teach us, believe Him, evaluate everything according to His Word and then obey Christ.

John 14:21

"Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him."

John 14:23

"Jesus replied, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him."

John 15:10

"If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love."

1 John 2:3

"By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments."

1 John 5:3

"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,"

Those who say they believe in Him but do not obey Him, are walking in pride and anger they are lying.

2 Corinthians 11:13

"For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ."

1 John 4:1

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world."

Revelation 2:5

"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."

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Obeying God Because We Love Him

A New Creation in Christ

Born-again believers have lost all desire to sin. Even if they do it in weakness they hate it and confess to be cleansed.

Those who defend the sin they love cannot be born again, these are the pretenders who think all they have to do is say they are a Christian and they are in.

When Christ changes us into a new creation we no longer think the same way we did before. The more time we spend with Him in prayer and reading of His Word the more we hate sin and the bolder we become.

When Christ changes us it is forever and the opposite of what we were before.

2 Corinthians 5:17

"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

Fitting in is not a Badge of Honor

Have you ever wondered why you don't seem to fit into any group?

There is always an initiation fee in joining groups and that fee is the total loss of your own values and beliefs to be accepted into that group.

Most gatherings have defined themselves by the thinking of the leader of that group rather than by the principles of Christ.

Born-again believers who are strong and honest are rarely accepted by groups. They speak of the Word of God more than they speak of human teachers and they challenge everything according to the Word of God.

The first thing that comes to mind in every situation for the born-again believer is a principle of God. Their mind has been shaped by their continual reading of the Bible and the promptings of the Holy Spirit, in short, they do not think like the world.

1 Corinthians 2:14 "But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."

Many things "Christians" say and do today have no basis in Scripture, they are the traditions of men. Once a person has been convinced of the wrong thinking it is very difficult to convince them of the truth. They tend to hang onto whatever is familiar or what justifies their wrong thinking.

May we obey God in "questioning all things" so that we may cleanse our minds of those things we were taught that were not of God and replace them with the mind of Christ.

James 4:7-9 "7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.…"

When the focus of a culture is to be happy as much as possible the culture will never see things in truth. They will ignore the things that need fixing and embrace what they like.

Someone once asked me why people accuse them of being negative when they are just exposing something to help.

My answer was that we are seen as negative but we talk more about the broken things because the good does not need fixing. Talking about happy things all the time doesn't fix anything, it merely sweeps the dirt under the rug so they don't have to look at it. This "positive mindset" is selfish and very often enabling without a solution.

A culture that thrives on God's Word and is filled with gratitude toward Him would be more interested in solutions and exposing evil to remove it, would be more joyful than the one that pretends everything is alright.

Isaiah 58:2

"For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God."