We find there is so many ideas concerning our spiritual walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. You hardly find two people seeing eye to eye on the majority of what we know as the Word of God. Christianity these days seem more like the confusion of the tower of Babel than the Lighthouse that it suppose to be. How can this be? Is God then the author of confusion? Or have He left us behind in our own wallow?
In Jeremiah 8:20-22 God asked
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Why is Christianity in such a bad condition? We are the laughing stock of the world. And I don't blame the outsider for shaking his head at the Christian world. The Christians today are a defeated people. They are no different than the outsider, sometimes worse with the additional label of hypocrite. Where is the holiness? Where is the victory? We are a far cry from when the church started on the day of Pentecost in the upper room. The days of Ananias and Sapphira. I wonder who produces more Atheists, the Christians or the unbelievers?
Yet all claims to be saved. We argue and deny the Word, we think we know better. Let's not even mention the disgraces that we find in our churches right up to the leaders. Adultery, greed, homosexuality. Pastors that cheat with congregants wife's, deacons that are married two, three times. The Church used to be pure and Holy. Now look at her. What will Jesus say if He returns today? Where has the standard gone too. Aren't we disgracing His name instead of Glorifying it?
Would it be as He said in Luke 18:8
8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Are we really ready?
I don't think so.... I believe this is what God thinks of us,
Revelation 3:14-22
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
There will be no Rapture if there is no unity in faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. But as many people I come across, so many people have different Ideas. So is it only me or is there something wrong with this picture? Where have we gone wrong?
Ephisians 4:10-17 Says
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind
This is pretty fundamental and to be honest, it's loud and clear. So, is it the Word of God that is wrong or are we being deceived?
How do you think that you are right? How do we come to that conclusion? Obviously we cannot save ourselves but surely we should have the fruit meet for repentance. Because I don't see it. Am I wrong?
