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2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, And for this reason God will send them a strong delusion, that they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 

I realize the pages of the blog have probably not given you warm fuzzies and pleasant goose bumps that are caused by fun-filled, pleasant teachings.  They are not meant to.  This is meant to get you to make sure your relationship to the Lord is what it needs to be.  Be sure you have entered the narrow gate (salvation in Jesus Christ) and that you are walking on the narrow way to eternal life in God’s kingdom.  What I have been describing to you regarding the downward spiral of our society has come because people have ignored God and His Word!  There has been a denial of who God is and lies about the knowledge of God and His righteousness.

 

Problems come due to denying the truth of God’s Word.  “The mind can become numb to truth and the heart calloused to God’s love in the gospel.” (Jeff Kinney, As it Was in the Days of Noah).  What happens when the heart becomes hardened?  People then do not see the reality regarding the event happening around them.  Go back and read the downward spiral written in the last verses of Romans 1.   When we abandon God, idolatry and immorality continues to increase.  The result is God’s wrath and He leaves those who have abandoned Him to their desires and pursuit of sin.  And, “God was sorry that He had made man on the earth and He was grieved in His heart.” (Genesis 6:6).  In Noah’s day, the result was a flood over the entire world.  In our day it has to end in tribulation, the rapture of the Church, seven years of Tribulation, and eternity.

 

As the “body of Christ” we must understand Satan’s plan to influence people to ignore God, to have nothing to do with Him.  He is continually trying to create an environment of hostility toward Christians; do not be surprised to see increased intolerance expressed toward Christians as ungodliness increases in our nation and in the world.  Already Christianity is being removed from areas of the world.

 

Okay, here is the Good News.  Jesus said in Matthew 16: 18, “And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church and the gates of hades, shall not prevail against it.”

You and I need a Savior to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves; we need a Savior to cleanse us of our self-reliance and sinfulness.  That Savior is Jesus Christ.  Jesus is telling Peter that the Church He is building is made up of those who accept Him as their Savior and follow Him as their Lord.  The Church is the “body of Christ” and cannot be overcome by Satan.  The true Church, the “body of Christ” will rise up in the power of the Holy Spirit to deliver people from the deception and darkness that we are seeing in the world today.  Be salt and light in this nation.  That’s what Jesus told us in the Sermon on the Mount.  Know the signs of the time.  Pray for our nation. 

 

I think it appropriate to close today by using a quote from Jeff Kinney’s book.  “Noah’s world didn’t begin without God, but it sure ended up that way.”  Look around. Which way do you think we are headed?”

 

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