Sound teaching, hard passages, prophecy, and errors to avoid.
You can’t work hard enough to please God. God has to enable you to please Him. Without God you can’t or it is of no effect. Without God you can give tithes and offerings but it elicits no sense of satisfaction. You can’t work for salvation!
The evidence of conversion is not just understanding the teachings of the church and active participation. The evidence of conversion must include a generous giving to support the mission of the church. You are not truly converted if you are reluctant to support the mission of the church you have joined. Your conversion is fake if your giving is tokenism. If you believe in it you finance it!
Has the word of God offended you? Are you angry at what has been preached, taught, and said? Ask yourself if anger can change the truth. When anger changes nothing, change that anger into acceptance of the truth!
May God grant us wisdom to know which threats to confront and which ones to withdraw from, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
Has God ever seemed silent to you? Have you expected God to speak, move and act but He didn’t? Has God disappointed you, so to speak, in that He didn’t move when you expected Him to move?
Our safety is living lives that are in line with the two witnesses OT and NT. We must be wary when dealing with civic and religious organizations so that we don’t get misled to oppose God. The only reliable two witnesses are OT and NT. May God help us to aline our lives to the two God-given witnesses in Jesus’ name, Amen!
The third lesson is that lack of glory doesn’t mean it’s over for you. The glory that is much better can and will come your way. The present temple had nothing attractive. Haggai promises that the present may be discouraging, but the future is certain and powerful!
I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
God will act. God will act in our time. God will act in a manner that will be beyond satisfactory. No one will believe what God will do. Are you among the wicked or among the righteous? Prepare yourself for God has promised to act. God will punish the wicked who will not have repented. God will reward and comfort the righteous who would have suffered immensely. Let the wicked change their ways today. Let the suffering righteous persevere. God will act is the message today.