Showing posts with label true Christian. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Signs Of The End Times With Billy Crone (Video)


The Lemur above looks as if he just heard some thoughtful news !  He is very intent and alert in his gaze.   

We Christians have some exciting news to tell :  Jesus will return soon to rapture His Bride (true believers) to be in heaven with Him.  We are definitely living in the last days; the last hours of the end times the Bible tells us about.  The Bible is almost 1/3 prophecy and we need to take heed and take action relating to what that means for us:  to live a godly life and to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to others.  

So many people shy away from prophecy, thinking it is all doom and gloom.  The best news we could possibly hear is the fact that Jesus could come back at any moment!!   We know this because the Bible -  Jesus -  tells us the signs to look for to take heed that we are in the last days; to know the season of His return.  Not the day or the hour, for no one knows that except the heavenly Father.  (Matthew 24:36)

Following is a video from ChristinProphecy channel on YouTube.  It's website is christinprophecy.org


Many end time signs are covered in this video featuring pastor and author Billy Crone.  They even mention and show photographs of some false christs in these last days.  That was one of the things Jesus proclaimed as a sign of the end times.   (Matthew 24:4-5)

The main thing is to be ready for the Lord when He returns !  That entails much prayer and much Bible reading and studying.  That in turn will enable you to have a deep, intimate, and personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.  That relationship will enable you live a life pleasing to the Lord.   You will know Him and He will know you.   You do not want to hear the Lord say in the Judgment,  

"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity."              -  Matthew 7:23

If you love the world; if you talk like, look like, and act like the world, then you probably are not a true Christian.  You are not born again; you are carnal still; you are not truly converted.

"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?  whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."  -  James 4:4

Those are strong words !!  Examine yourself, test yourself to see whether you are in the faith or not.

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.  Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"   -  2 Corinthians 13:5

We live in exciting times!  Prophetic times.  We Christians have a blessed hope (Titus 2:13).  

God is good!

Jesus loves you.

He is waiting for you to come to Him in faith and belief in Him as your Savior.

Don't delay!  

Don't wait until it is too late.


"Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me."  -  John 14:6

"But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy."  -  1 Peter 1:15-16

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: "     1 Peter 5:8

"And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming."   -  1 John 2:28

   



Friday, February 19, 2016

"True or False Conversion? - How to Tell Which" - Inspirational Weekend




"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.  Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?  -  2 Corinthians 13:5

A reprobate is one who is a hardened sinner, a scoundrel, and one who is cast off by God.   It is said that about 80 to 90% of new converts to the Christian faith fall away and leave the faith, primarily because they were not truly converted in the first place.  They may have sincerely believed they were converted,  but were sadly mistaken   They were not taught about the ten commandments and how guilty they were and therefore in need of the Savior Jesus.    If they are not convicted of how guilty a sinner they are, they feel no true remorse and do not truly repent; so it is easy to slip back into sin again.   The sad thing is, most of these false converts think they are truly saved.  Another sad thing is that often they are very worldly and their loose conduct causes the world to think all Christians are hypocrites.  

It is one thing to be a new "babe in Christ" and make mistakes, and another thing to sin without remorse.   A true Christian, when he sins, is saddened by his conduct and feels convicted by the Holy Spirit and will repent and make changes to live more of a godly life.  A true Christian does not make a practice of sin; they do not live in sin. The Holy Spirit is given to those that obey God  (Acts 5:32). If a person feels no conviction when he sins, then he may not even be born again.   In other words, the Holy Spirit is not living in that person at all.

A false convert will likely be guilty of things such as the following:  "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you  before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."  (Galatians 5:19-21).

"By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another."  -  Jesus speaking at  John 13:35 .  Love for people, especially of other believers, is a mark of a true Christian, a true convert.   That would mean you would not gossip about or slander anyone, and that you would always display the fruit of the Spirit which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.   (Galatians 5:22-23)  



A true Christian will not love the world and be consumed in its pleasures and lusts, and will watch his associations carefully.   "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?  whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."    -  James 4:4 .    That is pretty plain and is a warning.   See the warning signs in my photograph above?  They are warning of turbulent waters and to be careful ... there may even be rip tides.   The Bible gives us warnings and signs to obey and follow for our own good, and we would be wise to heed them.   The Bible is God's Love Letter to us and also His Instruction Manual.   Yet there are many professing Christians who never read God"s Word; they are spiritually illiterate and therefore weak in faith and not on fire for Jesus.   They live day by day in a spiritual vacuum, never asking God for direction and seldom praying, if at all.   WAKE UP!    Time is short!  Jesus will return soon and so many people are not ready and are not watching for Him like they should.   

"I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His Word."  - 
D. L. Moody   

"There was a day when I died, died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will;  died to the world, its approval or censure;  died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God."  -  George Mueller

A true Christian, as a follower of Christ, will endeavor to imitate Him.  "He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself also to walk, even as He walked."  -  1 John 2:6

Following is a You Tube video about  True and False Conversion by Ray Comfort.


Another video that relates to what we have discussed here is below.   It is titled "Hell's Best Kept Secret" and Ray Comfort and the actor Kirk Cameron share biblical truths.



I hope you take the time to view these two videos.   They are excellent for guidance for yourself and for leading others to Jesus.  I am sure you will agree that we live in perilous times now, and even though I am keenly interested in Bible prophecy, I realize the Great Commission of preaching the Gospel is what Jesus told us to do.   (Matthew 28:19-20)   Let us be busy in the Lord's work in these end times we find ourselves living in. 

"Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit."
- 1 John 4:13