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And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all on account of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.
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In the time of the prophet Isaiah the rebellious people of God would say, “You must not prophesy to us what is right, speak to us pleasant words, prophesy illusions.” {Is.30:10} Those who have bowed to the will of the people rather than the will of God have filled the pews and seats of their buildings to overflowing as they comfort the flesh with pleasant words!


As in the days of Jesus’ earthly ministry when many of His disciples would not abide in and follow His difficult teachings and who then withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore. {Jn.6:60,66} all too many ‘Christians today will not follow the Lord in giving all, surrendering all, choosing apostasy rather than faithfulness! That is what the Barna Group, a Christian research group perceives as “casual Christians”.


The Lord Jesus also was truly focused on eternity as was His bond-servant Paul when he wrote that Satan, the god of this world “has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” {2Cor.4:4} He went on to write about ‘being afflicted in every way, perplexed and persecuted.’ {2Cor.4:8} There are so many hard realities all in chapter four of his second letter to the church in Corinth as he spoke the truth in love. Do not shirk from the truth of God’s word as hard as it may often sound; they are words of life!

There has been a large billboard on the highway very near our apartment that proclaimed in very large, very bold letters’ “God is not angry!” And surely many large ‘successful’ churches teach that very same thing today. However, certainly one of the most effective sermons ever preached in later times was titled “Sinners in the hands of an angry God” by Jonathan Edwards in 1741. It was a catalyst for the First Great Awakening, a true revival in the American colonies. It is recorded that a common response was one man crying out before the sermon was even finished, “What must I do to be saved.” Oh, that we would have true revival today!


While Scriptures clearly teaches us that the anger of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God, God Himself can get very angry! Consider when Jesus was in a synagogue and encountered a man with a withered hand and He restored it to normal. The Pharisees, religious leaders, wanted to destroy Jesus. The Lord, as it is written in the Gospel of Mark, “looked at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart.” {Mk.3:5-6} The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. {Pro.8:13}

“But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

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