They will act religious:prayingm:, but they will reject the power :angel:that could make them godly:angel:. Stay away from people like that!
�2 Timothy 3:5
Not long ago, fake Apple stores were discovered in China. There were five so-called Apple stores that had been built. These stores looked exactly like Apple stores, down to the shirts the salespeople wore. In fact, they were so realistic that people who worked in them thought they were actually working in an Apple store. But they were not real. These were not cheesy knockoffs; they were impressive imitations. Even so, they were not the real thing.
We have people in the church today just like that. They look like Christians. They talk like Christians. We all assume they are Christians. But in reality, they are sophisticated imitations of the real thing. The Bible tells us that one of the signs of the soon return of Christ is that we will see more and more people like that:
In the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. . . . They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that! (2 Timothy 3:1�2, 5)
How is this possible? How can a person sit in church and hear the same message that a person who believes hears and yet not be a believer? Remember, there were two criminals who were crucified on either side of Jesus. Both were in the presence of God's Son. Yet only one believed.
Here is the thing we need to realize: church can be a dangerous place:angeldevil:. If you hear the truth and don't respond, your heart can get hard:devil:. The best inoculation against the gospel is the gospel heard--but not heeded.
12..Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit :angel:who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man�s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit:angel: teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man:angeldevil: does not receive the things of the Spirit of God:angel:, for they are foolishness to him:devil:; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned:angel:.
15 But he who is spiritual:angel: judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For �who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?� But we have the mind of Christ.:glow: 1 Cothinthians 2
Many people look like Christians, think they are Christians and in reality are not Christians. Do you remember 10 bride mates?
Some of them were 'fake' christians. Or better to say they were NOT PREPARED for the Lord Jesus' return. They all were invited to the Wedding ceremony. One day there will be a Wedding feast and we are all Brides. We all are Brides invited to this Ceremony in the Kingdom of God. But 5 of them were not prepared!!!! They profess their faith and sit in our Churches. They all confess Jesus Christ Lord. You can be in Church and not necessarily you are a Christian!!!
But there are people who are not real. We will see more and more people like this!!! They have the form of godliness�.but they continue in sin�But how is it possible? Wedding is so close and they miss it?!
Church is a dangerous place. It is a safe place f you come there with good reasons to worship God, be refreshed, replaced and rebuilt. If you do not respond to the Gospel and if you do not obey God and continue to live in your sins and not a godly life even in Church, then the day of your DESTRUCTION is approaching you every day of your life. Donna said the other day:
Psalm 37 : 9
For evil doers :angeldevil::devil:shall be cut off; but those who wait:angel: on the Lord shall inherit the earth:angel:.
The door of salvation could be shut in front you. Why? Are you not prepared to MEET the HOLY God Jesus living and walking with God. Where are you? Are you a foolish bride? We all should be wise brides. Respond in the right way to the word of God. Ponder!
The Spirit of God takes residence in your heart. And we should live according to God�s ways/laws :angel:He leads us to His Kingdom. Surely we all need the extra cruse of oil to receive it from God -the Comforter/Strengthener, our Eternal Supply, the Holy Spirit. We need to live with God. And God should live in us. If we live against God, then HOW are we going to MEET the Holy God? If you prefer to live with your lover..not with God, or stealing money during your financial business operations, then HOW are you going to MEET the Righteous God? He is the Judge and in His Justice He will condemn people to eternal second death in the lake of fire. Who are they? They are criminals/sinners. God said that unrighteous people will not see God! They will NOT inherit the Kingdom of the HOLY God!
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous :devil:will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6
Even liars :devil:will not inherit the Kingdom of God!
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit :angel:who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God�s. 1 Corinthians 6
Matthew 25
The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
1 �Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 �And at midnight a cry was heard: �Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!� 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, �Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.� 9 But the wise answered, saying, �No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.� 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.
11 �Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, �Lord, Lord, open to us!� 12 But he answered and said, �Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.�
13 �Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hou in which the Son of Man is coming.
17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies:angeldevil: of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction:devil:, whose god :devil:is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame:devil::buddies:�who set their mind on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven:angel:, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:waving:, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Philippians 3
10 But these speak evil:devil: of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt:angeldevil: themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain:devil:, have run greedily in the error:devil: of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
12 These are spots :devil:in your love feasts:angel:, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves:angeldevil:. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame:angeldevil:; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, �Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints:angel:, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly:devil: among them of all their ungodly deeds :angeldevil:which they have committed in an ungodly way:devil:, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.�
