And Yes, Even Some With “Good Intentions” and Go To Church Every Sunday
“For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” -Matt 7:14 (NASB)
With the world situation now in prophetic “perilous” times (2 Tim 3:1-5), it’s time to stop playing games with Almighty God, your salvation and your spiritual life. It’s time to turn it completely over to the Lord Jesus Christ!
Do most Christians think that because they wear the label of Christian and/or they regularly attend a church, that this means they will automatically go to Heaven when they die? I believe this is false teaching imposed by today’s false shepherds/pastors/priests behind pulpits across the land. If it’s not from the lips of the once saved, always saved lying pastors it’s to the belief that God is all about only love and their mantra is – “A Loving God would not send people into hell“. Did you read the verse at the top of this post and the one right below? Remember, Jesus said these things and more about hell!
“Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” -Matt 10:28 (NASB)
The most hateful thing that a pastor or friend could do to another is to NOT tell them about hell and how people end up there. This applies 1000% to pastors, elders or anyone picking up the mantle of teaching God’s word. I sat under a respectable, kind and nice, well-meaning pastor for many years and he rarely (and I mean rarely) mentioned hell and failed to directly confronted the members of his church with the stark reality of what it takes to end up there. Now, this is extreme hate. If you find yourself in this situation, go to your pastor/s and ask them about it and then ask why they aren’t teaching it. If they try and skirt the issue or send you down a rabbit hole of other reasons and excuses, get out of that church!!! (And I did depart from that church!)
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14- For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” -Matt 7:13-14 (ESV)
Don’t just assume you are saved cause you responded one time to an altar call and said the sinner’s prayer. This is false teaching again – nowhere in the Bible does it even mention this or this method of salvation (there’s no canned “sinner’s prayer” anywhere in the Bible). Being saved is a daily affair, a daily walk, daily prayer, daily dying to self, daily surrender to Jesus, daily confessing and repenting of your sin. You see being a Christian means a ton more than our weak-kneed, toothless Christian churches and clergy spew from their fancy and ornate pulpits each week. If you are going to say a prayer and mean it then use Romans 10:9-10 as heavenly instructions on what you do and how you do it.
But many [will] refute what I am saying here and go about their lives in their own wisdom and understanding instead of God’s!
Being a Christian means living your life unto God and walking in His will. What is His will you may ask…? It’s contained in His word – The Holy Bible. The whole book! But … do you make it a practice to read it daily? How much do you read it? Daily?
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22- Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23- And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness..”-Matt 7:21-23 (NASB)
What I’m saying here today concerns eternity, you know, forever! Many of us suffer many issues and problems here in the body and on earth, I get it (me too). But eternity is forever. And the things you do here, at this bus-stop of this life, will determine your final destination in eternity. Do you live for God, do you confess His Son as your Lord and Savior?
And do you repent [turn away] from your sin … then do it and mean it?
Many self-proclaimed Christians are suffering in hell right now because they were deceived by pastors (shepherds) that meant well, were nice, didn’t offend, seemed to care about you but never told you the truth about dying and your final destination based on the choices you make while here in the body. They twist and hide the truth, the no-kidding truth, of the Gospel to promote church growth (empire building) at the cost of countless souls who will be lost in hell for eternity. Let me tell you friends, the false shepherds (hirelings – John 10:12) will pay dearly for deceiving their flocks when they stand before the Lord. Check out how Jesus calls out the weak, fearful and timid “pastors’ (scribes, Pharisees – religious leaders, teachers) of His time…
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. 15- Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.” -Matt 23:13, 15 (ESV)
Do you think the Son of the Living God will say anything different to our generation? No, He won’t!
The verses I have included here are a wake up call and a call for the truth to every person who claims to be a Christian. I don’t care what position you hold, how intellectual you are, how academic you may be, how much money you have, how secure you feel in your job, health, family or friends. I do care about where you are going once this temporary gig, called life is up on earth. For you will carry no worldly status with you, or none of your accumulated stuff either. You (and I) will stand naked before Jesus and He will say well done good and faithful servant or He’ll say He never knew you and you will be ushered into [the waiting room for] HELL! This alone, these verses in Matt 7:21-23, should scare you to your core and cause you to reassess your life and what your relationship is with the Lord ASAP!
So the bottom-line: the time is late and maybe very short now before the Lord comes for His Bride (1 Th 4:13-18; 1 Cor 15:50-52) and play-time (playing church) must be over. The sincerity of our position as a Christian – a true follower of Christ and His teachings – must now mean everything! So as you finish reading this and with some sincere introspect into what you believe, profess and confess, where will your soul end up in eternity? With God in His home or tormented in the place of 0miserable darkness and of endless flames? BPW
“And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12- And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13- Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14- For many are called, but few are chosen.” -Matt 22:11-14 (KJV)
-BPWatcher, Internet Preacher and Bible Prophecy Watchman
GLORY TO GOD!
