“These Are Those Days”
Scripture: 1 Tim. 4:1-8, 2 Tim. 3:1-7 (Main text)
Point#1 (Make sure your lifelines up with the word)
Point#2 (Gird up your loins)
Point# 3 (There Is hope)
Saints of God there are many false prophets in the land! teaching things that are not sound doctrine. Beloved this is nothing new because they were false teachers in the biblical days and in the 1st century church who were not a part of the Lord's true church 2 Timothy 2: 19- 20. Child of God the Lord knows who is His and who’s not. This is why he made it clear to us in 2 Tim. 19-20 that in a great house (meaning the church) there are not just vessels of gold and silver, but you also have vessels of wood and earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor”. In other words, the Lord is saying there are both types of people in our churches. Therefore, we must recognize the times we're in and what we’re dealing with. People of God we're living in a time now that some people would rather believe a lie then the truth. Unfortunately, this is not just going on in the world but also in some of our churches.
Saints of God we MUST recognize that the end time prophecies are being fulfilled every day! 1 Timothy 4:1- 2 Therefore we’re seeing people departing the faith and giving themselves over to seducing spirits and teachings of devils. This is happening so much to the point that you can clearly see that some individuals are saying one thing but living and entirely different life. they have a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. People God the Bible instructs us in a Eph.4:14 not be carried away about every wind of doctrine(teaching). Unfortunately, beloved this also occurred during the 1st century church and is still occurring even more so in these last days. Beloved the Holy Spirit is telling us to beware of the false prophets and the false teachers because Satan has dispatch them all throughout the earth to deceive mankind. People of God just because it may sound deep and spiritual that word may not line up with the pureness of the scriptures. A word that is taken out of context is still a perverted word and the enemy knows how to pervert the word to his advantage. Again, child of God if a message that you hear doesn't line up with the word of God you don't have the responsibility to receive it; no matter who its coming from. for the apostle Paul told us in Galatians 1:8 that if we and Angel from heaven preach any other gospel other than we have preach unto you let them be an accursed.”
POINT1 (Make sure your lifelines up with Christ)
Child of God we all need to make sure that your life is ensured by Christ not by man, not by any organization not even by any religious system but by Christ and Christ alone.
Beloved because these last days are so evil, we all need to make sure I'll calling and election sure! In other words, again we need to make sure our lives are lining up with the word of God! I say this beloved because the apostle Paul admonished the elders in Ephesus in Acts 20:28 “to take heed therefore unto themselves other words (keep yourself in check) and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost have made you overseers or bishops to feed the church/ God's people which he had purchased with his own blood. Now notice what the apostle says in the 29th verse “for I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you and not sparing the flock”. Noticed child of God in the 30th verse he says also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them”. Then he goes on to say “watch” remember that I warn you for three years never ceasing day and night with my tears. It’s obvious to me child of God that the Lord gave Paul some insight on what was going to happen after his death. Beloved even in this present day I'm sure that some of our fathers and mothers in the gospel before the Lord called then home warned us that these same things would occur even in our day.
Beloved unfortunately because there are so many false prophets in the land now, the sheep are becoming confused and scattered. They're at a point now that they don't know what to believe anymore because of the false teachings. However, that's what Satan's agenda has always been to create confusion and then divide and conquer.
People of God even though we as leaders encourage you to study to show yourself approved unto God. The reality is that we all still need the fivefold or fourfold ministry to be operating in all churches. Child of God we all still need an anointed preacher and the Holy Ghost to help us to understand the word of God. We need this to be able to make the appropriate applications of it to our lives! (No one person or member of the body has it all) Understand this beloved and anointed, Spirit field preacher is empowered by the Holy Ghost in order to provide to you and I the proper diet of God’s word for our understanding. Therefore, this dispels the myth that you can get it all through your own personal study. That’s just not true for if that would be the case then there would be no need to have the fivefold or fourfold ministry gifts in the body of Christ which was placed in the church for the perfecting or the maturing of the Saints of God.
People of God I mentioned earlier in the message that men would rather believe a lie then the truth. Unfortunately, this is has become very prevalent in our politics especially here in the United States. right has become wrong and wrong has become right. Child of God even with some of our “moral politicians” this has become the case. Beloved now you can have the truth staring someone right in their face and they'll choose to look away from it. Unfortunately, in some ways this spirit has crept into the church where God is speaking and showing some things to some of his leaders but they're choosing not to hear it or to see it and definitely not speaking to it! Yes, beloved where in those days. The world is confused on what's going on and unfortunately in some of our churches we are too. People of God could this be because we have lost our biblical view of the world? Have we in some ways mixed man’s philosophy with our theology and now call it a new revelation from God . (This is what I call a pseudo gospel) because we’re not looking at it with the eyes of God. This is just a question, some food for thought.
Point#2 (Gird yourself up)
People of God I hear the spirit of the Lord saying that we need to gird ourselves up in the Spirit for this will be seasons of plagues, COVID-19 viruses will continue we have now monkey pox that is rapidly spreading and unfortunately there’s civil unrest throughout our country here and of across the world. However, people of God even in the midst of all of this; there will also be a season of revival and miracles. However, for this to occur beloved there has to be a season of true repentance and turning back to the things of God; as a result of this the church must stand up and speak against the sins of our country, the world and yes even in some of our churches! Again, Child of God I say every church is not necessarily the Church of Yahweh/ God. There are many false churches in the earth that are not of God. People of God noticed in Revelations 2: 9 the lord points out a church or a synagogue of Satan . Now we have gay churches, we have satanic churches. There’s all type of churches but they're not necessarily the true Church of God!
People of God I hear the Lord saying in some ways we need to go back to the old path that's where we'll find him. He's given us the path of holiness to walk in. We need to walk there in.
Beloved understand this, the season that we're in now the enemy has launched a major attack on the church in many different ways. Those attacks are not necessarily from the outside, but some are happening within the church. His plan is for the church to implode from the inside out, but he is a liar! Child of God God’s church will always prevail!
Beloved it's important to know that God has given us as the ability to understand what heaven is doing even in these evil days. God's divine movement can be clearly revealed and understood by those in the earth but unfortunately not everyone has the capability to understand such an hour. People of God the Bible tells us in Acts 1:7 not to be so concerned about the times and seasons which the Lord has placed in his own power. However, that which He has exposed to his church must be understood and acted upon in order to meet the demands of the kingdom in these last days. If we the church become so engulfed with our flashing lights and entertaining spiritual services, we’ll miss out on performing our duty in the earth; and as a result we'll miss some of the blessings that God had for us. Unfortunately, beloved in some cases we're hearing the call but not responding to the it.
People of God the enemy is not playing with humanity or the church (misery wants company) he doesn't care how many degrees you have, He doesn't care how much money you have in the bank. He doesn't care how many good works you do. He doesn't care how much you dance or shout or even speak in tongues. What he cares about is destroying you and the reputation of the church and taking you straight to hell and ultimately to the lake of fire FROM THE CHURCH ! Beloved I know we don't get this type of teaching or preaching much now for the scripture in 2 Timothy 4:3- 4 is truly manifesting itself where is says “for the time will come and is when they will not indoor sound doctrine but after their own lust show the heap to themselves teachers having itching ears the fourth verse says and they show turn away there is from the truth and shall be turned unto fables”. People God “we're in those days”
Beloved these are critical times we're living in right now now our United States Justice Department is reporting that there are real threats that are being made against our FBI agents. They're real threats that are being made about a possible civil war in our country. Beloved there's chaos all over the land!
People of God these are times you can't have just heard about the Holy Ghost you have to have a intimate relationship with him. Beloved in doing this this allows you to know where he is and where he's not and what he's doing in the earth otherwise you'll be out of tune with the reality of the day. ECC.9: 11 - 12.
Beloved the biblical reality of the season we're in now is that we will face extreme wickedness (Matthew 24: 12, Ephesians 5:16.
There’ll be great spiritual wickedness and deception Matthew 24: 21-22.
There’ll be great spiritual conflict and war against the truth Revelation 12:17.
There’ll be days of great abominations Romans 1:22- 28.
There’ll be days of great delusion and reign of lies will be great 2 Thessalonians 2: 3-11.
People of God these things in the book therefore you might want to take a look!
Point#3 (There’s hope)
People God even with all of this going on the Lord told us in Matthew 24: 6 to be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet. Beloved in that same chapter it tells us in the 13th verse he that endures till the end shall be saved, that's the key beloved. We must keep our trust in God no matter what we see in the natural and the spiritual realm. And remind ourselves that we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood.
People of God the Lord promised this is in John 14:26 that the Holy Ghost would be sent in his name and will teach us all things and bring everything back to our remembrance and He did this in the form of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost.
In the 27th verse he says this peace I leave with you then he got real specific and said my peace I give unto you not as the world gives. Beloved be encouraged because our God is going to come back to get those who are looking for His great appearance!
Saints of God one of the scriptures that we must hold deep in our hearts when we see all the chaos in the earth is Romans 8:35 where it says “who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? The apostle Paul says in the 37th verse he says NO in all these things we own more than conquerors through him they loved us.
Conclusion: People of God the Lord wants us to be mindful where we are in time and that we must a heavy sense Kingdom! But know this child of God until the Lord returns these are the days that the holy Ghost told us through his servant the Apostle Paul would happen. Therefore, there's no need to wonder what's going on as what Marvin Gaye would say. We the true church of God know what's going on “we're in those days”.
