Choosing God
If I live like everyone else, I will love like everyone else...and look where that is taking the world.
All of creation is longing for you and I to choose God in a unique way. Even the trees and grass and the squirrels know it is on us to respond to the hour of great intensity.
Romans 8:18-19 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
John said this:
I John 2:17-18 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
Peter said this:
II Peter 3:11-12 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Paul said this:
I Corinthians 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
James:
James 5:8-9 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!
Jude:
Jude 1:16-18 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
So that is every known author of the Epistles...all saying the same thing: I live like Jesus is executing His plan to return...this is how I am getting ready. Each person God saw fit to include in the New Testament (you can actually find old testament writers who said the same thing) lived like they were the last generation.
This is the irony: we DO live in the last generation. Do you realize how highly offensive it is to that "great cloud of witnesses" when believers in our day use "no one knows the day or hour" not as an exhortation to get ready, but rather as an excuse to do nothing?
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Being saved, which all those writers we love were, is not the same as being ready. The wave of trouble they saw coming is about to break, and many are standing in the exact spot where the wave will crush them.
If you live like everyone else, you will love like everyone else, and you will get what everyone else gets. For real.
II Thessalonians 2:1-12 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 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. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
All of creation is longing for you and I to choose God in a unique way. Even the trees and grass and the squirrels know it is on us to respond to the hour of great intensity.
Romans 8:18-19 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
John said this:
I John 2:17-18 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
Peter said this:
II Peter 3:11-12 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Paul said this:
I Corinthians 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
James:
James 5:8-9 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!
Jude:
Jude 1:16-18 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
So that is every known author of the Epistles...all saying the same thing: I live like Jesus is executing His plan to return...this is how I am getting ready. Each person God saw fit to include in the New Testament (you can actually find old testament writers who said the same thing) lived like they were the last generation.
This is the irony: we DO live in the last generation. Do you realize how highly offensive it is to that "great cloud of witnesses" when believers in our day use "no one knows the day or hour" not as an exhortation to get ready, but rather as an excuse to do nothing?
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Being saved, which all those writers we love were, is not the same as being ready. The wave of trouble they saw coming is about to break, and many are standing in the exact spot where the wave will crush them.
If you live like everyone else, you will love like everyone else, and you will get what everyone else gets. For real.
II Thessalonians 2:1-12 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 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. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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