The true call of Christ

2 Tim 3: 1-9, 14-17

    “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.”

    “14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”

    I hope I am not the only one that has been thinking this way the past few weeks, but doesn’t it seem like 2 Tim. 3 is being fulfilled right in front of our eyes? These are truly times of difficulty. Right now, we are in a very hard place spiritually. Please do not take your faith lightly. Just as Paul gives a call to war against the “evil powers of this dark age”, I encourage you all to develop your spiritual arsenal. Let us be ready to “Preach the word; Be ready in and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching.”  

    We have a tendency to think we are just in a safe bubble, and there are churches everywhere so there isn’t really anything we can do to help spread the gospel further. The truth is each and every day the enemy is infiltrating people’s hearts on a personal level. Meanwhile we are too focused on polishing our armor to see the enemy and where he is infiltrating even into our own hearts. It does not matter how they attack or how they take our lives. To them their only goal is getting you to believe one lie, and then cultivating that lie till it destroys you.     That is why as Christians we must fight TOGETHER! We must continue to ask the spirit to show us those lies in our hearts and develop our spiritual eyes. We must love each other enough to say something to one another if we know it isn’t biblical. This also means that we don’t all have to agree on every subject related to Christianity, but we must be able to work together and teach each other and to be extra willing to be taught. If we look to Christ and we all seek his character and wisdom in our lives, then and only then will we be able to truly answer the call to war for Christ.

This war Christ calls you too will undoubtedly cost you everything. Your life, your freedom, your comfort, your pride, and your time are all subject to destruction. God didn’t call you because he needed you either.  He called you because he wanted us to truly seek him and love him for who he is in all perfection; so that we are able to give him the glory He alone deserves!! You are not your own, you are bought with a price (1 Cor. 6;19-20).

As Propaganda said it in his spoken verse song  G.O.S.P.E.L;

    “Here’s what God says is part A of the gospel. You can’t fix yourself, quit trying it’s impossible. Sin brings death, give God His breath back, you owe Him. Eternally separated, and the only way to fix it is for someone to die in your place and that someone has gotta be perfect, or the payment ain’t permanent. So, if and when you find a perfect person, get him or her to willingly trade their perfection for your sin and death. And since the only on that can meet God’s criteria is God, God sent himself as Jesus to pay the cost for us… The same breath that God breathed into us God gave up to redeem us. His righteousness, His death functions as payment. Yes, payment. But at the resurrection we all cheered because that means the check cleared.”

    We exist to willingly give our lives back to the one who gave us ours, so that we can be reborn and perfected in him alone.  So, ask God to give you the tools needed to train yourself, but rely on Gods strength to do so. The greatest thing you can do is to lay down your life for an all-knowing, all-powerful God, but it is your choice. Please don’t ride the fence, you will get shot from both sides. Half of a gospel is not completed or perfect, you are either all in or all out. But if you are in then please, spread the word, do the hard things, and reach the lost. And if you are out, quit saying your a good guy and therefore a Christ follower because I do most of what he says. Not the ones you are comfortable with, not the ones you think that might hear it. The Gospel is for ALL! So, it is our job to tell EVERYONE of the great news that Jesus gave his life so that we can give our lives for others and be perfected through his free and life-shattering gift. Run the race; keep the faith; Do It together with your God given brothers and sisters and bring more people to the one and only God of all. Remember, the cost is emptying yourself completely so God can fill you entirely, and that cost is a lifetime of dying to yourself, every moment, so that you can become the perfected work of the one true God of all. Are you willing to answer the call?