I know that there are many messages that I could share, but
I must speak what I hear the Holy Spirit saying and I believe that there is an
urgency to this message He has given me today.
Today the urgency of the Holy Spirit’s word to me is, Jesus is coming.
I remember when I was growing up, we rarely left a service
without hearing, “Jesus is coming.”
We lived with a sense of Urgency of the hour, we were
constantly reminded that these are the last days. I literally lived with a fear
of missing the rapture, it was that real to me.
Many times during my rebellion, when my heart was not right with God, I
would find myself fearing that I may be left behind, and it was a fearful
prospect.
But today something has happened and it seems like the church
has fallen into a slumber, we’ve begun snuggling up to the world, we’ve begun
falling in love with money and pleasures, and out of Love with Jesus. Our lives have become more and more about
being happy and less and less about being holy.
We have become more and more concerned about being comfortable and less
and less concerned about being consecrated.
Our focus has become more and more focused on our kingdom and less and
less on His.
Just like the Virgins we’ve fallen asleep waiting on the
bridegroom. It is an undeniable fact
that the church has been asleep, it has long been referred to as the “Sleeping
Giant,” because Satan knows what the church is capable of when it is awake, but
when it's asleep the church is laughing stock, and a source of criticism and
humiliation.
Why is this Point so Important? Because a church that is asleep is powerless,
it is without influence in the world, and it becomes tolerant and accepting of
everything.
One of the greatest indications of a church that is asleep,
is that they have no sense of the urgency concerning Jesus’ return. Many times through the scriptures we are
instructed to keep the soon coming of our Lord in our thoughts and in our
hearts, and to live every day in the urgency that He could return at any
minute.
There are some things in the scriptures that are conditional
and relational and whether they occur depends on our attitudes and our actions.
But this is one thing that God has determined will occur He didn’t ask for our
participation or input, He doesn’t care if we agree or like it, Jesus is
coming!
The disciples lived with urgency because Jesus said:
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Work while it is day for the night cometh when no
man can work
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Behold I come Quickly
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Occupy till I Come
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Go into all the world and preach the gospel to
every creature.
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And these signs will follow those who believe…
This urgency filled them with expectancy and it fueled them
to preach and reach as many people as they could before his return and they
evangelized their then known world. This
sense of urgency also kept them diligent, alert, and holy.
When the church gets sleepy, the church gets sloppy. It begins to look like the world, talk like
the world and act like the world and sadly in many cases you can't tell the
difference between the two. That is what
we are seeing today, a church that has fallen asleep with its head in the lap
of the world.
Like Samson the church has been in love with a prostitute,
the hedonistic spirit of this age that says, “If it feels right, it must be
right.”
I'm talking about the apostate church, the backslidden
church, the church that accepts and ordains homosexuals and lesbians, the
church that says there is no such thing as hell and your heaven is here on
earth, the church that says you are your own god so you decide your own
destiny, the church that says there's no such thing as the rapture, and there's
no such thing as a judgement day. This
is the Apostate church, this is the backslidden church, and this is the harlot
church.
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They still have Sunday services
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They still carry a bible
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They still sing religious Songs
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They still talk about God
·
They still lift their hands and go through the
motions
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They may even speak in tongues, but Jesus said, “Their
hearts are far from me and they are just Vain Babblers.”
I know this message is not politically correct, but it is
biblically correct!
But thank God there is another church, a remnant seed, the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ! She is
the bride of Christ and she believes the words of Jesus. The church of Jesus still teaches:
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Holiness, sanctification, consecration, and
separation from the world.
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That the Holy Spirit still convicts us of our
sins, and without holiness no man shall see the Lord
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That there is a Heaven and there is a hell and
there is an eternal judgement and that those who reject the mercy of God in his
Son Jesus will be eternally lost
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That sin Separates us from God and that sin is
darkness and darkness and light cannot dwell together
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That the coming of the Lord is imminent and only
those who are covered by his blood and robed in His righteousness will go with
Him when He comes.
Noah lived every day with the sense of urgency. He worked, he prayed, he preached, and he
pleaded with the urgency and intensity of one who believed that this could be
the day the flood is coming, and that judgement is coming.
We are living in just such an hour! God’s judgement is at the door, while multitudes
of people who are sitting in the churches have fallen asleep.
Matthew 25:5-6
“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!’’
That cry is going out today, the Holy Spirit is sounding the
wake-up call! The trumpet of His love
and mercy is being sounded from every righteous pulpit of every true man and
woman of God. All across the land and
around the world the cry can be heard, “The day of the Lord is at hand!”
Even the media, scientists, and many people who are not
believers have a sense that something big is about to happen. They may not know what they are doing, but
they are echoing the prophets as they are forecasting drought, famine,
earthquakes, tsunamis, financial collapse, martial law, nuclear war and
government take overs.
But I have a message to the true
church, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the called out ones, those who are
sanctified and washed in His blood and clothed in His righteousness: Lift up
your heads, your redemption draweth nigh!
What is going to be the greatest grief and tragedy that has
ever hit this planet is also going to be the church’s finest hour.
Matthew 24:36-44
“36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the
angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37
But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man
be. 38 For as in the days before the
flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and
took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one
will be taken and the other left. 41 Two
women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what
hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know
this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come,
he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son
of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
To those who are ready, we welcome his return, we've been
expecting Him, but to those who are not ready He is coming like a thief in the
night.
Are you ready today? Are you covered by his blood, is your
name in the lambs book of life?
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