AN ANGRY MAN IN HELL -- Will You Be? Part 1<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
To His Own "friends", the Master said:
"And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him." Luke 12:4-5
One night a respected pastor in south Texas had a dream of a man running through waist-high fire, picking up bodies and throwing them down after identifying them by looking at their faces. The pastor related that it was as if he was hunting for someone in particular. In the vision, this angry man running through the fire, was going from person to person, hastily picking up tormented bodies one by one off the ground and throwing them down after looking at the face and seeing it wasn't the person he was looking for. At this point you might be asking "Who was this angry man looking for?"
The next morning the pastor who had this dream was distraught at such a horrid vision and asked the LORD what that dream meant. The LORD said simply: "This is an angry man in hell looking for a preacher that lied to him!"
This was a person (angry man in hell) who sat under a pastor who was more interested in building his own personal kingdom on this earth instead of Christ's, so he told people what they wanted to hear instead of what they needed to hear – the full-counsel of divine truth. This naive man, now in eternal damnation, like millions today, did not study to show his own self approved to God, and consequently bought-into the lie, thinking he would be in Heaven.
Does this not bring 2 Thessalonians 2 into focus?
"And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
What do we want friend, the truth now, or later? Do we want comfort now and torment later (and forever)? Or, do we want the biblical truth of salvation, which reveals that all who truly trust Christ will be tested and attacked the whole of their earthly life with trials, tribulations, persecutions, and the various sufferings associated with the life of saving faith. Eternal glory is the divine promise to those who overcome (Rev. 2-3).
"Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God." Romans 2:6-11
Friend, are you truly serving Christ and being fruitful in His kingdom? Today, if you stood all alone in a court of law, would you be accused of being a true disciple of Christ? If so, would there be evidence enough to prove such an accusation?
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