There will always be those few people who think it is their job to stir up trouble and strife. Sometimes the devil is behind these attacks against the church in hope of dividing a congregation and preventing the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We know that our time to spread the truth about Jesus is running short because one day He will return to this earth and bring the Kingdom of God to the earth in full completion. There are many people who are scoffing about the return of Christ because we have been waiting for so long for His return. Some forget that the Lord is patient and He doesn't desire that anyone should perish, but He desires that everyone repent of their sins and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. That doesn't mean everyone will be saved because there will be many people who will reject God's offer of salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
Jude vs. 17-25 says,
17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.
18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”
19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.
20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
22 Be merciful to those who doubt;
23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—
25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
In this last days just before the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires and not be led by the Holy Spirit. Those who don't know the Lord don't have the Holy Spirit indwelling them. Only people who have repented of their sins and have been born again by placing their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross have the Holy Spirit indwelling within them.
We believers in Christ Jesus must not give into the scoffing of others. We must not allow the devil to gain a foothold in our Christian fellowship. We believers in Jesus Christ must stand firm on the truth of His Holy Word, the Bible. We must continue to pray in the Holy Spirit with many prayers for all believers.
We must be about the Lord's business and proclaim the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our local towns, cities, states, and take the message throughout our world. Our world is dying and people are dying everyday without having received Christ as their Savior.
We believers in Jesus Christ have a mission ahead of us and we must take that mission seriously because people's eternal destinations depend upon it. People need to hear about Jesus and people still need to be saved. How can people be saved if no one tells them the Gospel?
It is time for all Holy Spirit filled believers to stand together and proclaim the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ to this lost and dying world. Let's start forming relationships with other Bible believing Holy Spirit filled Christians and go out into this world of ours tell people about our hope in Jesus Christ.
God loves people and He wants them to be saved. We must take the Gospel to them. We shouldn't take it to them in a forceful way, but in a way that is gentle and in the love of Christ.
We all have sinned and we have all fallen short of God's high standards. On our own we are all deserving of being found guilty and placed into a literal hell forever. God made a way for us to obtain forgiveness of our sins and be reconciled back to God.
God demonstrated His great love for each one of us by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth on a rescue mission. Jesus lived a perfect and sinless life. He went obediently to the Cross and shed His blood for our sins and He died on the Cross taking the punishment that you and I so rightly deserve.
God raised Jesus to life on the third day to show us that He is indeed God and He had conquered death. Everyone who repents of their sins and receives Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior will be saved. We are saved by grace through our faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
When we come to faith in Christ Jesus the Holy Spirit comes to indwell us. God is so very good and He loves us to very dearly and greatly. Don't you think the people around us should have the chance to hear the good news of Jesus Christ for themselves? Let's form relationships with them and tell them about Jesus.
Lord,
Help us not to allow divisions to form in our fellowships.
Help us to discern truth from error by feeding upon Your Word, the Bible.
Empower us through the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Gospel to those around us and to the world.
We praise Your Name.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen.
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