![]() No commitment, moral or ethical standards. The reason why people like religion is because it doesn’t require anything of them. According to the book of James, faith and works should be together, whether it’s for believing God for something or by faith and works through submission to God’s Word. He has many fooled, thinking all they have to do is believe in God without the works to manifest a godly lifestyle that will manifest who’s servants are. He keeps us busy, so we don’t take the time to read God’s instruction manual to see if our life aligns with God’s Word. Satan has captured the hearts and minds of God’s people to the point we hardly ever stop to think about where we may have sinned against God and try to correct our actions because we have allowed Satan, who is a thief and a robber, to influence us that our lives are pleasing to God. Sin is like cancer it’s terminal and will spread from one generation to another. To “cut it off” shouldn’t be taken figuratively, it means to take whatever drastic action is necessary to avoid sin. Many don’t believe that God will allow someone to be in eternal damnation, but if it weren’t so, He never would have allowed it to be in His written instructions known as the Bible (And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off it is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched – Mark 9:44). For thousands of years, we have heard that Jesus is soon to return, no one knows the day or the hour, but when He returns, He’s coming to judge the earth of its wickedness and the people who rejected His calling. This is also how it will be when Jesus returns it will be a surprise for the non-believer and the carnal Christian. God has no delight in the death of sinners (Say unto them, As I live saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked – Ezekiel 33:11). Throughout the Bible, it shows how God always cried out to His people through godly men to return to Him with repentance and serve Him by His status because His desire is not for His people to perish.Ī thief never informs you when they’re coming to rob you it is always with a surprise. God is not willing for any of His people to perish, but that all of them would come to repentance. ![]() His longsuffering is given both to the professing Christian and non-believers time to prepare themselves for His coming. What men count slackness is truly longsuffering, and that is towards all of His people, those who profess to be Christians and non-believers. Good men are apt to think God stays beyond the appointed time, that is, the time they have set, but they set one time, and God set another. He does not delay beyond the appointed time He will keep to the time appointed in coming to judge the world. We are told that the Lord is not slack concerning His promises. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which, the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up – 2nd Peter 3:10.
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