Wake Up, Wake Up - FEAR GOD!
Posted by L A on Sunday, April 14, 2013 Under: Prophecy
Jesus said,
"Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear HIM who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" Matthew 10:28.
Are you aware of the fact that the Word of God makes more reference to punishment and hell, than it does about heaven and blessings? I didn't actually bother to count the scriptural references given in Bible.com (you can follow the link and see the disparity for yourself), but it is obvious that there are more warnings than blessings.
This isn't surprising at all, since Jesus Himself often warned against hell:
"If your hand offends you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched. And if your foot offend you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched. And if your eye offend you, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire, where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched" Mark 9:43-48.
These are just a few warnings from our Lord and Savior that hell is a very real place, as He is very descriptive about it, and we should do everything within our power not to go there - even by drastic measures. The above passages where not parables or symbolic, but they were literal instructions given by Jesus.
You don't hear very many preachers who give messages on the whole truth. Ministers are all too aware that people only want to hear about how much God loves them, but they simply do not want to hear the truth about what happens to the "unGodly and sinner."
"If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the unGodly and sinner appear?" 1 Peter 4:18.
Did you notice that there are references made to not only the sinner (lost and unsaved), but also to the unGodly? You don't necessarily have to be labeled a sinner to act unGodly. The scripture bears out the fact that some people who call themselves "Christians" will not make it into the Kingdom of God. The parable of the wheat and tares is a very good example:
"This people's hearts are waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them" Matthew 13:15.
A bit later in this same chapter, Jesus said:
"The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way; but when the blade sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So, the servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? From where then does it have tares?' He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?' He said, 'No; lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather you first together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn" Matthew 13:24-30.
The Lord is merciful. He will allow the unGodly to sit in churches among those who serve the Lord with all of their hearts, to allow them every opportunity to repent and receive the power He has provided to live a holy life. There are families sitting in churches together, among which some are servants of the enemy and others the servants of God; but rather than uproot the entire family, God will allow them all to sit together until the end harvest, then the unGodly will be rooted out from among His "wheat."
This message is for someone today, who may be given their last opportunity to stop trifling with God, and get serious, while there is yet still time.
All of humanity is sitting at the brink of eternity, but many are sleeping. Wake up, wake up! How much time do you suppose you have to trifle with God? The world's average life expectancy for men was 64.52 years for men, and 70.14 for women in 2010 (en.wikipedia.org), so I suppose you might get away with deducting your current age from these figures to determine how much pathetic time you have left to indulge yourself; but I would suggest that you STOP, and consider that there are many graves of babies and youth in the cemeteries throughout the world. If God calls your number today, will you be carried up by the angels to heaven, or will you be ushered into a burning hell fire, "where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched!" I beg you to consider whether or not a few possible years of "fun and games" is worth it?
Considering Bible prophecy (especially in the book of Daniel, Matthew 24 and Revelation 13) and the events that are now unfolding, the Lord is likely to return before you can even accomplish your life expectancy.
This is a dire warning, yes; and it is not a popular message today, but I'm not worried in the least about pleasing the masses, so I can collect a vast amount of tithes and offerings from the people. My message is from God and it is full of truth, as outlined in the scriptures. If you aren't interested in hearing this message, you frankly aren't interested in hearing God Almighty. By the way, I don't have much money, don't care and don't need it. "My God supplies all of my needs according to His riches in glory" (Philippians 4:19). I am, in fact, looking for that city not made with hands (Hebrews 11:10 and 2 Corinthians 5:1).
For those of you who complain about the fact that I so frequently report on the warnings from the Word of God, I can only ask, Don't you think the world has enough of this today?:
"The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears" 2 Timothy 4:3.
If you have itching ears, there are churches like Joel Osteen's megachurch, with his 40K+ members, in just about every city in America; you are free to go there and hear only half of the truth as often as you like. In fact, since there are so many of those churches plaguing society, I will probably continue to focus on the other half of truth, so people can at least get a fair share of the whole truth. I would also add that those who live holy and uprightly before God don't have a problem with this other half of the truth. Yes, contrary to what you believe, there are a few who live Godly in this present world, for Jesus also said:
"Enter in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be who go in thereat; because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leads unto life, and few be there that find it" Matthew 7:13-14. These are the words of Jesus, not mine.
The Word of God also says:
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do His commandments. His praise endures forever" Psalm 111:10.
Are you saved? Regardless of the perilous times we are living in, with the global economic crash and tyranny to face in the midst of a global government; do you have the "peace of God which passes all understanding? (Philippians 4:7)." This peace, in the days we are living in and with the prospect of soon leaving this world, is priceless. If you aren't saved, please visit the How Can I Be Saved page of this website. Your eternal destiny depends on it. God bless you, friends. I love you enough to give you the whole truth, not just the part that will "tickle your ears."
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