The time we live in is characterized by different doctrinal deceptions. Many are busy serving God but they are not worshipping in Spirit and in truth. It is only those who worship according to God’s standard that will be accepted. There is need for us to constantly examine ourselves so that we will not be led astray.
The Bible constantly warns us against falling from the faith. We constantly need to examine ourselves to see if we are still in the faith. Many are falling into different errors of heretical doctrines, thinking that they have found “new truths” but are lost.
God is love and He does not want any soul to perish. That’s why He sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ to die for us. His love towards sinners is to enable Him make them accept the free gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ. God is angry with they sinner every day but His anger is not hatred. He does not hate them and as a result wants them to die and be punished, rather He goes to them in their filth and pleads with them to repent; this is love. If they refuse to repent God’s justice will bring condemnation upon them for rejecting His love. God is love but when men reject His love they face His other side: the Consuming Fire.
“Thus Saith the LORD” is a very powerful expression. It has authority because it quotes God. We know that God does not lie. Everything He says is authentic and reliable. Unfortunately, we see people giving messages supposedly from God but what they say is against the written Word of God. God does not contradict Himself “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” (1Cor. 14:33). There are many lying spirits in the world therefore we must test every spirit if they are of God. No private prophecy, vision, dream or revelation is above the Scriptures. The Holy Bible is our final authority. Whatsoever revelation that does not agree with the Bible should be discarded.
Many Christians are struggling with their spiritual life because they laid blocks on their old foundation, which they would have broken down at the point of accepting the Christian faith, in order to lay a new one in Christ. This message is a call to true repentance and consecration to God.
