Today’s “modern Christian” is one that is always supposed to be rich with money. I’ve heard preacher after preacher say “If your faith is way up here . . . your bank account is way up here!” One woman minister went as far as to say that “. . . the devils worst enemy is a rich Christian.” (That one made me incredibly sick when I heard it).
First of all, if our lives consisted of nothing more then smelling roses for a living we would begin taking for granted the God that purchased us by His own blood on Calvary. Secondly, we are the soldiers of God, the mighty army of Jehovah. The fearless followers of Jesus Christ. If there was never a battle to fight, we would never try and learn defense. We would be satisfied with just knowing that there was a god somewhere out there that kept us in the finest cars and best clothes that money can buy. In thinking this, the so-called spiritual leaders of the flock of God have become slaves, but not of Christ. They have become followers of a deity, but not the Father. They have become children, but not of the family of God.
Their god is their belly and their father is Satan. For verily it is written, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (John 8:44). They desire the things of the flesh to increase while causing the things of God to decease. They want the rewards of Holiness but they despise the price one must pay to receive them. It is a sad and distressing sight to watch these so-called preachers of righteousness declare that they are sounding forth the horn of Noah in this last hour. They are sounding forth alright but their tunes are of a different message. They have tried to convince us that preaching righteousness means to stand before a congregation of believers and preach right things. That is only a small part of the message of righteousness. This last call of God is not for those that believe, it is for those that have rejected the message of Christ and His forbearing love. This “Last Day Message” is a sermon of judgement not only of grace.
Think of Noah, he was declared a “Preacher of Righteousness.” Why? Because he declared that those things which were done by the world were sin and against God. Every prophet shouted for the children of Israel to turn from their ways for they were living in sin. Yet the ministers of today are taught to “tolerate,” to be compassionate, and above all to not be offensive. Let me tell you something solider of God, if Christians do not start declaring from the house tops that the “WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH” then by the Holy word of God, Hell is going to be full of us. For it is written, “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it” (Isa 5:4). Christians, this is not a walk in the park we are on. Behold we are on a journey through the valley of DEATH and we are wondering through this wilderness of SIN. It is pass time that we begin to, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (Isa. 58:1). For if we speak words of vanity and sing songs of deceit then when the Lord shall come we shall be as the blind, as those that grope at noonday as though it were midnight. We shall be smitten with the wrath of The Almighty God, and it will be too late to say that which is right, for our hour of grace will have passed in the heat of the night. |
