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2 Peter 3:3, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their lusts,

 

Galatians 6:7, Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

 

You have seen the news.  Two police officers were shot in California.  They did not die and were taken to the hospital to be treated.  That’s bad!  But there is more – demonstrators stood outside the hospital yelling they hoped the officers died.  Outside the Republican National Convention protestors shout “F*** your Jesus.”  Scoffers making light of our Lord; I wonder if they were making light of the promise of His coming.  If they believed in Jesus Christ they would believe in His return because that is His promise to Believers.  These people do not even fear His return and having to face judgment!

 

It is not difficult to discern that people who say these things do not know Jesus Christ as Savior.  I am not judging; I am examining the fruits they are producing and they are not Christ-like.  Galatians 5:16-21 gives a list of the things that describe fruit produced by those who walk after the flesh - included are lewdness, hatred, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, heresies, and murders.  Does this sound like what we are witnessing in the cities of this country?  The apostle Paul states these scoffers are “walking according to their lusts”.  God sees and hears all of this and He cannot be pleased.  How much longer will He allow this to go on?

 

In Galatians 6:7, Paul is giving a warning to us today.  Those who claim to be born-again while consciously sowing to the sinful nature (walking according to their lusts) are guilty of mocking and despising God.  As the politicians declare, let me be perfectly clear: such persons will reap corruption.  Galatians 6: 8 declares, “For he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”  In the last page of the blog we referred to moments that are life-changing.  The decision to live for Jesus Christ is living to eternal life.

 

How would you like to be the person or people saying the things above?  Think about each of them standing before the Creator, Savior, and Judge and having to give an account of what they said or did to Him.  I think there will be what the Bible calls weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:12) because without repentance they will be cast out into outer darkness.

 

I realize that 2 Peter 3:3 is referring to those mocking the return of Jesus Christ.  But, as I hear or read these words being spoken I wonder when He will come.  I know that “in His mercy, the Lord is waiting for the vilest sinner to repent and these people would fall into that category.  The Holy Spirit will continue to come to convict of sin and reveal the truth about Jesus Christ” (a statement from David Wilkerson).    But, I must be honest.  I do not think He will wait much longer.

 

Matthew 24:44 tells us to always be ready.  “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

 

“Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”  Revelation 22:20.

 

 

 

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