People, Get Ready

[just-us-2]

How would we "miss it"? If we are taken, we are taken can't miss that...unless I am misunderstanding your point. Matthew 24:46 indicates we don't need to worry about being distracted if in HIS will.

 

[soldierofchrist4ever24]

How would we "miss it"? If we are taken, we are taken can't miss that...unless I am misunderstanding your point. Matthew 24:46 indicates we don't need to worry about being distracted if in HIS will.

I have always seen an abstraction here of both be ready and willing to wait. kind of like if you lose your life you gain it and the first shall be last etc. but i also got coffee brewing. just saying

in Christ
Brother Travis

 

[Ariel82]

[As I was writing out this passage the words awoke a question – if Christ says He doesn’t know these people, how could they cast out devils and prophesy and do miracles in His name? We know His power is greater than anything else and just His name is immensely powerful, so consider the implication here – Christ doesn’t know these people – they are not His – these people claim to have cast out demons and prophesied and performed miracles. Perhaps the key is that the people claimed to have done these things and they didn't really happen. We know that today it is common for people to have an inflated idea of how much good they are doing. In Acts 19:14-16 there were exorcists using Jesus’ name but the demons caused the man in whom they lived to beat them up and run them off naked and bleeding. They were unable to cast out these demons using Jesus’ name so, who are these people talked about in Matthew 7? Did they really do these wonders? He knows His sheep (John 10) and they know Him and even the demons know Christians: “And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?” Acts 19:15 --- As much as I would like to say that I completely understand this, I have to say I don’t.]

I've wondered about these passages as well and the thought that comes to mind is what if these people are claiming to do what only God can do?

Because people don't have the power to cast out demons. God sends His angels to deal with them. We are told to stand and resist and they will flee but we are not commanded to chase after them and try and wrestle them after they have run away. Sometimes the spiritual strongholds need to be destroyed and it has nothing to do with demons but lack of knowledge and the cure is discipleship, prayer and reading the Bible and not false "deliverance ministries" or pouring more money into greedy "prosperity" preachers hands.

Their focus is on what THEY did and how great THEY are and not upon God and what He has done. They don't preach about Jesus and what He DID on the cross but boast of their own works and own inflated self importance.

Hi Just-us-2 welcome to CC. your posts are like a burst of fresh air. thanks and may God bless and keep y'all.

 

[just-us-2]

A few of the many instructions to believers are:
Be ready - 1 Peter 3:13-17
Seek God – Jeremiah 29:13
Study – 2 Timothy 2:15
Be holy – Leviticus 20:7, Hebrews 12:14
Be the salt of the earth – Matthew 5:13
Love Jesus Christ – Matthew 10:37
Listen to Christ – Mark 7:14
Abide in Christ – John 15:4
Take up our cross and follow Jesus Christ daily - Luke 9:23
Worship God – John 4:23
Always pray and not lose heart – Luke 18:1
Do not be anxious about the necessities of life – Matthew 6:25
Humble yourself – Matthew 23:12
Or, all wrapped up in one short verse “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” Micah 6:8 (KJV)
Knowing very well the scripture commonly referred to as “the great commission”, it is abundantly clear what God expects us to do.Matthew 28:19-20 (KJV) “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” There is a catch here though and that is: we can't teach what we don't know and we can't “go” if we aren't maintained, just like preparing our car for for a road trip – gas, oil, etc. A car won't run without gas and it won't run very long without oil to lubricate and maintain.
People, get ready – and help others do the same - for what is coming, physically and spiritually. We don't have the right to sit back and reap the rewards of the gift of salvation, just because we call ourselves Christians.

 

[just-us-2]

I've wondered about these passages as well and the thought that comes to mind is what if these people are claiming to do what only God can do?

Because people don't have the power to cast out demons. God sends His angels to deal with them. We are told to stand and resist and they will flee but we are not commanded to chase after them and try and wrestle them after they have run away. Sometimes the spiritual strongholds need to be destroyed and it has nothing to do with demons but lack of knowledge and the cure is discipleship, prayer and reading the Bible and not false "deliverance ministries" or pouring more money into greedy "prosperity" preachers hands.

Their focus is on what THEY did and how great THEY are and not upon God and what He has done. They don't preach about Jesus and what He DID on the cross but boast of their own works and own inflated self importance.

Hi Just-us-2 welcome to CC. your posts are like a burst of fresh air. thanks and may God bless and keep y'all.

Thank you so much! Encouragement is a "gift" all Christians have and I tend to neglect that sometimes. I come in here and see a rare post that isn't fighting or hateful and neglect to hit the little "like" button just to give encouragement to the poster. To tell the truth, I have come in here and posted very little in the last few weeks simply because it seems so futile. Shame on me! Thank you for the reminder!

 

[homwardbound]

I agree! Sadly, I have found that many professing Christians are immobile - they are sitting around waiting to get raptured out before the tribulation and thus don't actively disciple other, etc.

Why are you concerned for another whether they are doing it right or not, for God said God will be your teacher nad are in no need
[h=3]Hebrews 8:7-13[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)

[h=3]A New Covenant[/h][SUP]7 [/SUP]For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. [SUP]8 [/SUP]Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— [SUP]9 [/SUP]not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. [SUP]10 [/SUP]For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. [SUP]11 [/SUP]None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. [SUP]12[/SUP]For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
[SUP]13 [/SUP]In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
We are in this new Covenant Today:
Hebrews 9:15
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 9:16
[ The Mediator’s Death Necessary ] For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Hebrews 9:17 For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.

 

[homwardbound]

yes but we are so close that if we ourselves get distracted we could miss it

Look at the Ten Virgins parable, interesting, keep the light on, by and through trusting God, not self works

 

[homwardbound]

It's called self deception.
They really weren't casting out demons or healing, they just thought they were.

For example, those in the charasmania "deliverance" ministries who see a demon behind every bush, and as the cause of every fleshly struggle. They'll yell at "demons" in Jesus name. In their mind they believe they cast out a demon. But in reality all they did was yell at a demonless bush.

Another example, the heretics in the name and claim, blab and grab movements, who are really just teaching a christianized version of the mind sciences aka The Secret. They'll pray for someone who's sick. They'll "claim" the healing. Then they honestly believe the person is healed, but they aren't.

I think Jesus is talking about self deception, not actual people who healed or cast out demons.

So it be the motive behind the curtain that is veiled and looks so vey good then yes, is what is Judged by God the Father and God the son

 

[homwardbound]

A few of the many instructions to believers are:
Be ready - 1 Peter 3:13-17
Seek God – Jeremiah 29:13
Study – 2 Timothy 2:15
Be holy – Leviticus 20:7, Hebrews 12:14
Be the salt of the earth – Matthew 5:13
Love Jesus Christ – Matthew 10:37
Listen to Christ – Mark 7:14
Abide in Christ – John 15:4
Take up our cross and follow Jesus Christ daily - Luke 9:23
Worship God – John 4:23
Always pray and not lose heart – Luke 18:1
Do not be anxious about the necessities of life – Matthew 6:25
Humble yourself – Matthew 23:12
Or, all wrapped up in one short verse “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” Micah 6:8 (KJV)
Knowing very well the scripture commonly referred to as “the great commission”, it is abundantly clear what God expects us to do.Matthew 28:19-20 (KJV) “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” There is a catch here though and that is: we can't teach what we don't know and we can't “go” if we aren't maintained, just like preparing our car for for a road trip – gas, oil, etc. A car won't run without gas and it won't run very long without oil to lubricate and maintain.
People, get ready – and help others do the same - for what is coming, physically and spiritually. We don't have the right to sit back and reap the rewards of the gift of salvation, just because we call ourselves Christians.

Loving your posts, yet as I see it, there is no flesh in the Spirit of God and there is no Spirit of God in the flesh.
God, Spirit is ready to use us if we will be vessels to be used by God, and God knows who needs what, all I need is to trust God and move and have my being by God, thanks to Christ the Son, going to the cross for me to give, me, you and all life here and now in the Spirit of God, by the resurrection after the death that took away all sins in Father's sight, so Father can give us new life in the resurrection
[h=3]Colossians 1:22-23[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)

[SUP]22 [/SUP]in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—
[SUP]23 [/SUP]if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.


[h=3]Galatians 3[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)

[h=3]Justification by Faith[/h]3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? [SUP]2 [/SUP]This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? [SUP]3 [/SUP]Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? [SUP]4 [/SUP]Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?



How are we made perfect, by self effort? Or by Faith in God's finished work at the cross?

 

[enoch1nine]

I have not done any real works, I have not helped the sick, or converted anyone, or even shared a testimony

If you have ever made the smallest self sacrifice to alleviate another person's problem because you love them, you have.
You don't always have to give a testimony, be, that is, "keep" the testimony.

 

[MarkIA]

Bible prophecies may or may not be what we have perceived and understood in the Bible but still we have to be prepared !
It is said :
Ephesians 5:15-16

[SUP]15 [/SUP]See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

 

[just-us-2]

Bible prophecies may or may not be what we have perceived and understood in the Bible but still we have to be prepared !
It is said :
Ephesians 5:15-16

[SUP]15 [/SUP]See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Thank you for your comment. So true! I am learning more lately that challenges the traditional (at least here in TN) baptist belief that were all going to be zapped out of here before the so called "tribulation" and see a lot of apathy for living as God expects us to simply because we could be "raptured" out any minute. I am afraid some folks are in for a rather unpleasant awakening.

 

[Christforme]

Wow according to the link you gave we arent even close to end times XD 2% in libya? 12% in most other surrounding countries? barely scratched the surface.

Nothing scares me more than that line: " I never knew you"
I just pray that he will, and does know me!!!
I have not done any real works, I have not helped the sick, or converted anyone, or even shared a testimony, I get baptised in a few weeks. So I hope I have at least enough time to do that.

P.S. Thanks for the link by the way, ive been wanting something that showed that information.

Knowing Jesus is obeying Him. There's a post mark of the beast is sunday laws. I explained in a reply that knowing God is keeping His ten commandments (uncluding sabbath): "he that saith, i know Him, and[but] keepeth not His commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him."- 1 john 2:4 plus jesus told them in matthew 7, depart from Me, ye that work iniquity: iniquity = sin. And sin is breaking God's law "sin is the transgression of the law"- 1 john 3:4.
I just thought i would share that.

 

[john832]

If you have ever made the smallest self sacrifice to alleviate another person's problem because you love them, you have.
You don't always have to give a testimony, be, that is, "keep" the testimony.

Blathering a "testimony" in front of others is not only useless, it is damaging...

Mat 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Mat 6:2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
Mat 6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Mat 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Mat 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Mat 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

What should we do?

Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Mat 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

No mention of hearing here, is there?

 

[josh123]

We know the last days are upon us and that we must “redeem the time” while we still can (Ephesians 5:16, Colossians 4:5) There are many things God wants accomplished but many hindrances are standing in the way. The church – not just one particular religion– is stagnant and accomplishing very little today.
Many will disagree with this statement. They are blinded by their own “good works” – mission trips, feeding the homeless, church dinners and other functions – all good things in their own right, but... we are not called to “busyness.” Multitudes of these very people will be the ones the scriptures speak of inMatthew 7:21-23 where it says, “Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. On that Day, many will say to me, `Lord, Lord! Didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we expel demons in your name? Didn't we perform many miracles in your name?' Then I will tell them to their faces, `I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!'”
[As I was writing out this passage the words awoke a question – if Christ says He doesn’t know these people, how could they cast out devils and prophesy and do miracles in His name? We know His power is greater than anything else and just His name is immensely powerful, so consider the implication here – Christ doesn’t know these people – they are not His – these people claim to have cast out demons and prophesied and performed miracles. Perhaps the key is that the people claimed to have done these things and they didn't really happen. We know that today it is common for people to have an inflated idea of how much good they are doing. In Acts 19:14-16 there were exorcists using Jesus’ name but the demons caused the man in whom they lived to beat them up and run them off naked and bleeding. They were unable to cast out these demons using Jesus’ name so, who are these people talked about in Matthew 7? Did they really do these wonders? He knows His sheep (John 10) and they know Him and even the demons know Christians: “And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?” Acts 19:15 --- As much as I would like to say that I completely understand this, I have to say I don’t.]

did you know that people perform witchcraft and use the words from the bible to do these acts?

 

[josh123]

honestly if the works isn't like how god did it don't believe it 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
[h=3]John 10:37-38 i saw a testimony on youtube was talking about african men that use these "rings" to perform these wonders and discernments of the heart, and in barbados a few african preachers actually came and held services in barbados my friend had recorded the church service and show me the video after of what happen, this woman came up and ask for prayer because she didn't had good finances or something like that and he prayed over her purse and throw water in it and fire came out.. yea fire and some other interesting stuff but honestly you gotta test these spirits to see if it really is from god 4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1 good and they got some others that well the people actually gotta pay to receive healing hundreds of dollars, honestly if the spirit doesn't do what god did it can't be a of god 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Matthew 24:24 but no matter what they do they cannot deceive the elect.[/h]

 

[Cobus]

Wow so lets do it, you dont need a plane ticket to africa, go out to your local town and do it!

Please keep your American evangelists right there where they are... We had enough Joyce Meyers, Benni Hinn, Rick Warren and other false teachers here, in fact we have enough of our own. If you do find thosr that GOD appoints, them yuo can send, but please mail CV FIRST.... I will be judge if they can come or not, since God is teaching me to judge.... Or to judge RIGHTEOUSLY....

I am in Africa, so do not bother sending more false teachers, rather let them puff you up, or you throw them out of your systems. We are A-OK here in Africa. The churches here have adopted and accepted all the same theatrics as the ones in America, REALLY we do not need more of that FALLING over and TERONTO blessings and Kulani spirits.... LEave them right there in USA...