Sunday, January 10, 2016
Spirituality Of The Last Days
Bible Questions Answered:
“...I do not believe this world will
ever be spiritual...”
Gordon/ Calgary, Alberta Canada
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Last Day Spirituality:
Psalm 78:35,36 KJV
35 And they
remembered that God was their Rock, and The High God their Redeemer.
36 Nevertheless
they did flatter Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with
their tongues.
Proverbs 15:8 KJV
The sacrifice of the wicked is
an abomination to The Lord: but the prayer of the upright is His
delight.
Proverbs 17:15 KJV
He that justifieth the wicked,
and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination
to
The Lord.
Proverbs 24:24 KJV
He that saith unto the wicked,
Thou are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall
abhor him:
Isaiah 1:11-15 KJV
11 To what purpose is the multitude
of your sacrifices unto Me? saith The Lord: I am full of the
burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not
in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before Me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread My courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto Me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the
calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the
solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your
appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me; I am
weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your
hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 5:20,21 KJV
20 Woe unto them that call evil
good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in
their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah 65:5 NLT
Which say, Stand by thyself, come
not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in
my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Jeremiah 2:35 NLT
And yet you say,‘I have done
nothing wrong. Surely God isn’t angry with me!’ But now I
will punish you severely because you claim you have not sinned.
Ezekiel 33:31,32
KJV
31 And they come unto thee as the
people cometh, and they sit before thee as My people, and they hear
thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew
much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a
very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well
on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Malachi 2:17 KJV
Ye have wearied The Lord with your
words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied Him? When ye say, Every
one that doeth evil is good in the sight of The Lord, and He
delighteth in them; or, Where is
The God of judgment?
Matthew 6:5 KJV
And when thou prayest, thou shalt
not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in
the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be
seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Matthew 7:21-23 KJV
21 Not every one that saith unto Me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth
the will of My Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name
have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto
them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 15:8,9 KJV
8 This people draweth nigh unto
Me with their mouth, and honoreth Me with their lips; but their heart
is far from Me.
9 But in vain they do worship Me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew 23:14 KJV
Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a
pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater
damnation.
Mark 7:6 KJV
He answered and said unto them, Well
hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This
people honoreth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.
John 5:43 KJV
I am come in My Father's name, and
ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye
will receive.
Romans 1:32 KJV (Read the whole
chapter verses 1-32)
Who knowing the judgment of God,
that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do
the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
I Timothy 4:1,2 KJV
1 Now The Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
II Timothy 3:1-5 KJV
1 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection,
truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high minded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Titus 1:16
KJV
They profess that they know God;
but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and
unto every good work reprobate.
I John 1:8 KJV
If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and The Truth is not in us.
Revelation 3:17 KJV
Because thou sayest, I am rich,
and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest
not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind,
and naked:
Revelation 11:10 KJV (Jerusalem's
two witnesses slain)
And they that dwell upon the
earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts
one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt
on the earth. (Killed by the beast.)
The world couldn't be more spiritual,
of course its a “false, evil spirituality.
God created man, (a Creator's right),
to be a spiritual being, needing to be one with and worshiping The
God Of All Creation.
"you have made us and drawn us
to yourself, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in you."
From the Confessions
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Man, has an innate spiritual craving,
that nothing may take away. The enemy knowing this, makes sure he,
satisfies such a need.
The worlds biggest spiritual revival,
now in its latter day inception, will be a sinister and dark
renaissance of abject evil, culminating
with the worship of its architect, Satan, and his anti-Christ.
Revelation 13:1-4 NLT
1 Then I saw a beast (The
anti-Christ) rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten
horns, with ten crowns on its horns. And written on each head were
names that blasphemed God.
2 This beast looked like a leopard,
but it had the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion! And the dragon
(Satan-the serpent)
gave the beast his own power and throne and great authority.
3 I saw that one of the heads of the
beast seemed wounded beyond recovery—but the fatal wound was
healed! The whole world marveled at this miracle and gave allegiance
to the beast.
4 They worshiped the
dragon (Satan)
for giving the beast (The
anti-Christ) such power, and they also worshiped
the beast. “Who is as great as the beast?” they exclaimed.
“Who is able to fight against him?”
The end of
Christianity, Never! Yes thousands of Christians are being slain at
the hands of radical Islamists, but this is not the end of the story.
Homily:
This pastor may
have told this story before, but it certainly bears repeating.
My father a lay
evangelist in the state of California (Lewis J. Reine), had a vision
one day, that he would never forget.
In vision he saw
two massive dogs, one a pure white dog, thee other a black dog. As
they came together, it was a heinous assault, each had thee other by
the neck. My father watched as he could see the tremendous strain on
the animals, for each had the other in a death grip. As they stood
trembling , he could see blood starting to stream from the neck of
each dog.
It looked like the
white dog was going to go down, it was shaking and looking weak from
the battle,
just then,.....the
black dog, dropped to the ground, dead.
My father never
forgot the vision, and he believed that it was an illustration from
The Lord to him, that Cheer up, God is “not,” dead, but alive,
and He has “not,” forgotten His faithful people, they will be
victorious!
Satan will have his
day, and he is working none stop, because
Revelation 12:12
KJV
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and
ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the
sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath,
because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
But Satan's time will come to an end!
Matthew 25:31-34;41,46 KJV
(Christ's second coming.)
31 “But when The Son Of Man comes
in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit upon His
glorious throne.
32 All the nations will be gathered
in His presence, and He will separate the people as A Shepherd
separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will place the sheep at His
right hand and the goats at His left.
34 “Then the King will say to
those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father,
inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.
41 “Then The King will turn to
those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into
the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons.
46 “And they will go away into
eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.”
We live in a world
today, that longs for a spiritual awakening, of Godless influence.
And they will have It, but they will regret forever their decision.
Hebrews 4:7 KJV
"...To day if ye will hear His
voice, harden not your hearts.
Acts 2:21 KJV
And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of The Lord shall be saved.