It’s really sad when social media is abuzz with a video or pictures of a person claiming to do something really foolish like healing someone by kissing them or jumping on people in the name of the God of the Bible. It’s even more sad when people who are supposed to know better follow such. As sad as all this may be its definitely not surprising at least it shouldn’t be.
The reason we shouldn’t be amazed by it is because God, through the Bible, has warned us that such people will come up. 2 Timothy3:1-5:
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. (Emphasis added)
How many times have heard or seen a supposed man of God promise “heaven on earth”. They prey on people’s greed and anxiety concerning things in the here and now and at the same time falsely assure people of eternal pleasures with God to come. These fake preachers speak of a god who can supposedly turn snakes into chocolate and can cause you to enter your destiny where there is an abundance of health and wealth. However the god they preach of cannot change people’s hearts and give eternal hope to his children. This is evident in how many of their congregants are living in greed, constantly coveting and worrying about “making it big in life.” Many, like their leaders, will talk about God but deny His power. They seek “blessings” for their lives or maybe even for others and yet they out-rightly minimize the greatest blessing of all and that is the miracle that God does in a person’s heart so that they can be able to hear and understand God’s word and obey it.
Oh that many would come to know the real God of the Bible! The One who works with great power in a heart that was once rebellious to Him and flooded with worry after worry to a heart that first and foremost is at peace with the God of the universe and one that continuously finds hope because of what has been done by Jesus Christ at the cross. Which category of people do you belong to: the godless that are described above or the one who has truly encountered the God of the Bible?
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