Greetings Dear Saints in Jesus' Name by Whose Blood we are Saved.AMEN.
This year is fast drawing to an end and in less than 70 days God will either expose me as a false prophet or vindicate what He has said through me here in [url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12628&forum=35&19]Prophetic Credentials 3
There has been something which has been working on me from the book of Luke for a while now. i heard it as a lyric in a song and a couple of weeks ago, another brother in Christ gave me a scriptural reference for it and it caused me to reflect upon myself and consider it seriously. luke 12 reads:
[b]35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut F33 him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. [u][b]47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.[b]For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
much has been said about this coming judgment and one of the questions which has oft come back is "why us when there are others which are worse?" We can expect the heathen nations to do wickedly but i believe that the above scripture explains why Judgment is headed our way, we know what is right and don't do it and so we deserve many stripes. That we even ask such questions speaks of a blindness on our part to our true spiritual condition before God as outlined in Rev 3 in the letter to Laodicea. Zac Poonen writes about that here in this article [url=http://www.cfcindia.com/web/mainpages/word_for_the_week.php?display=10_04&year=07]don't be ignorant of your spiritual condition.
in reflecting upon my own life and knowing what i have been shown of God and not having been wholly obedient to Him shows me my wretchedness before Him and that apart from Him am finished. As Paul got older he realized this and at the beginning of his walk he didn't consider himself to be less than the most imminent of the apostles, however at the end he said he was chief of sinners. Dear saints Paul realized his wretchedness before God and how desperately he needed to cross to be at work in his life each moment, he saw how desperately he needed Jesus and i pray we all see this more clearly each day.
Grace and Peace are ours in Jesus.AMEN.