JESUS’ WORDS FEW BELIEVE!
The longer I live, and the more times I read the holy scriptures – all of them, from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21, the more I realize that Satan is a stark reality, and that he has indeed deceived the whole world (Revelation 12:9), including most professing Christians. He is an absolute master at his craft, working his deceptions with the utmost zeal 24/7. With each passing day I understand more fully why Jesus said, “Narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:14). Jesus said at the judgment MANY, not the few, will contend with Him face-to-face that they were indeed His followers, even ordained by Him to preach, and did many wonderful things in His name and with His blessing and help only to hear Him say, “I never knew you!” (Matthew 7:22). Those are some of the most astounding and frankly chilling words Jesus ever spoke during His thirty-three years on this earth! And yet Christian after Christian and preacher after preacher will read those words confident Jesus was speaking of “the other guy” – not them.
We have this life, and this life only, to get it right. And since a single tomorrow is never promised us, this life we enjoy could end at any moment. Over and over again God’s Word emphatically declares that we must abandon all sin in order to really understand the scriptures. Few do so. That is why precious few really understand the scriptures and are so quick to embrace false doctrine and hold to that false way all the days of their human existence. See Daniel 9:13 and 2 Peter 1:5-8 and Colossians 1:21 and Ephesians 4:20-24, etc. Every time a believer sins they give Satan an ever greater toe-hold into their mind and thinking. “SIN NOT…neither give place to the devil” (See Ephesians 4:26-27).
The preacher that says a believer can never really break with sin and obey His Lord, who said, “Go, and sin NO MORE” has been duped by Satan and is unwittingly acting as Satan’s agent.
God help you to understand is my prayer.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley