SOUND THE ALARM!

By Rick Mathes

1 Corinthians 7:29 (NASB77) ²⁹  But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

The Lord is near! That’s good. The Lord’s return is near! That’s even better if you are a child of the promise. If you are not a professor of His good news, His return is really bad news because you will not even be invited to the White Throne Judgment. Your future in hell’s furnace is already a done deal. You may want to reconsider Him as your Lord. Will you have the breath to say “I believe?”

A backslider by definition is someone who isn’t even trying. Let me illustrate by asking you, “How long can you coast your bike uphill without pedaling?” See what I mean? Staying in a path to glory upward is within the power of the Holy Spirit within you ut you have to keep on pedaling or you will slide back.

If you don’t move forward to His Kingdom you will be lost to this world. The kingdoms of this world are temporarily in the hands of Satan. How do I know this? The devil offered them all to Jesus if He would just worship him. Satan could not have offered what wasn’t his.

So “Sound the Alarm” and warn everyone within your hearing to study the Word as though their lives depended on it. Salvation is the proof of believers that are planted in the good soil of the gospel. The evidence of a true confessing of faith is the service to the Lord. When the cause is God and the effect is godliness which is fueled by the compassion that can only come from His broken heart for a broken people reaching our for mercy only He can extend.

Yes there is suffering but it is only for a season. Lose hands are the devils workshop so remember that the holy hands are attached the living temple of your body and they must be about that work of the Father or lifted up to Him in praise and worship.

Satan will surround you with every amusement he can get his hands on to distract you and to turn your eyes and attention outward instead of upward. Your powerful prayers and petitions then wilt away to small talk and worldliness that forgets that the Lord is near!