What good is it to have all the physical essentials, while repentance towards God, and faith towards Jesus Christ isnt being preached, and many souls are heading down the road to perdition!
Hold fast, and repent!
Rev 3:3 Remember then how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you...
Many will spend vast amounts of time discussing and arguing over when the Lord will return, or when the so called rapture of the church will take place, but totally fail to understand they have not received and heard the truth that transforms and saves!
They also fail to do their first works and repent as commanded, and don’t see what Jesus meant when He said to hold fast and watch, be alert, guard the heart, cloth yourself IN Him, and abstain from all appearances of evil.
This powerful verse alone along with hundreds of others all through scripture and in the book of Revelation, simple break down what is required of those seeking truth apart from the system of errors!
You must receive the truth, which can only come from a heart made pure though the repentance process, where you lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness first! Then with great humility and meekness, which is real repentance, you can now receive the implanted word (Jesus Christ) cleansed and purged, the carnal mind put to death, thus leading to being a doer of the word and not a hearer only, as most who fight against the truth are, they hear but don’t understand, they are receiving the truth in deaf ears, a mind unsound and still carnal sold under sin!
Jesus is coming as a thief in the night, the world and church will be unaware when He will come, but He strongly warns His bride to be ready, pure, undefiled, and standing strong in the faith. He made it clear also who He will save and who will be cast away!
So if you are in great struggle with sin(willful disobedience to God) loving the world and all its vain attractions at the expense of walking in purity, sincerity and love, then you are not ready, and are risking a surprise attack from the Lord of all, who promised to rend to all according to their deeds!
Rev 22:11 He acting unjustly, let him still act unjustly. And the filthy, let him be filthy still. And the righteous, let him be righteous still. And the holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12 And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according as his work (deeds) Heart purity, holiness, separation, diligence to the truth, blameless and upright!
WE will be judged by how the Lord finds us when He comes! Do not think you can sin repent, sin repent, or as they like to say fornicate repent, get drunk repent, lie, cheat and steal, then just repent, and all is well with God! This isn’t real repentance, just sorrow of the world that just hardens the heart against God, and proves you are still carnal sold under sin, as the truly repentant soul, who actually went through godly sorrow leading to repentance and conversion, will be awake, and ready, cleansed and purged, for the bridegroom’s presence!
Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the prophecy of this Book.
Tommy 2-27-13