As I read my twitter feeds Sunday evening I read how God
moved all across our fellowship. People are being baptized and filled with the
Holy Ghost across the globe. The Word of God declares that the Almighty would pour
out His Spirit on all flesh in the closing hours of the church. The revival
that is sweeping this world is a clear sign that Jesus is about to come. As I
preached in Sunday’s first service don’t become deceived by this world and the
events of your daily lives and miss the coming of the Lord. The signs of His coming
are all around us if we are not asleep or being ignorant of what is coming upon
this old world.
While attending the Arkansas District Camp Meeting this past
summer one of the evangelists made this statement. “Too many opportunities are being missed by people with other things
on their mind.” Stan Gleason
It is the plan of this world and the works of darkness to
side track the church so that we become less effective for the kingdom of God.
Jesus warns us not to be distracted or deceived in this closing hour.
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and
of the end of the world? And Jesus answered
and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Matthew 24:3-4 KJV
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall
shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Matthew 24:24-25 KJV
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Matthew 24:42 KJV
Today your world will take your attention and the anointed
moment of God will be missed because we are carried about with other things.
Just as Jesus warns Martha, we can get covered up with other things and miss
the best things.
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, …
The Apostle Peter says that there will be people who willing decide to be ignorant of what is about to happen. They will excuse it and put it aside because their day has deceived them and they live as if things will always be the same. This day you are living in will deceive you into thinking such a though. This day will make you become ignorant of what is about to happen in this world. But such feeling will not stop or change the fact that God is about to come but will cause us to miss a great chance of being ready.
The Apostle Peter goes on to write in his
book, “But the day of the
Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away
with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the
earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all
these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God,…” 2Peter 3:10-12 NKJV
Last week a Muslim
leader stood before the UN and introduced the fact that there is a man who will
as he claimed, fix all this world’s problems, a man he named. While we worried
over trivial things the great possibility of the anti-Christ was about to be
introduced to the world almost happened. By what this man said he knows who the
man is. He knows of a man who can fix everything. With all this and many other
things pointing to the coming of the Lord what is distracting you away from
living a vessel filled life. (Matthew 25:1-13)
What has your focus
this week? What keeping you from daily prayer?
What was more
important than living holy righteous before God?
What takes all your
dreams and time and causes the coming of the Lord never to cross your mind? What
is deceiving you? Do we not realize we are breathing air that the trumpet of
God could very well be about to sound through? What is getting your attention?
What has you focus?
What is deceiving
you?
Deception from this
world will take your focus and cause one to miss the coming of the Lord.
Here is the link to
the speech given in the UN.
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