Recognizing a need for Spiritual Warfare       pt3 of 4

Few there are that will overcome

Jesus says in Revelation 3:20 “Behold I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

How many that claim Christ have ever truly experienced the He in me and me in Him that scripture speaks of?

Take a white garment and dip it into a bowl of water died red. The white is in the dye and the dye is in the white and the two are now the same.

It is what we must experience to say that we truly have fellowship with Him.

Revelation 3:21 :To him that overcometh I will grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in His throne.”

A person must overcome this world.

He must overcome himself.

He must overcome the devices of Satan.

This is only done by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ and through faith becoming one with Him.

1 John 5:4 “ For whosoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6

That means that a person needs to hear, study and read Gods Word as much as possible.

A persons faith cannot exceed their knowledge and correct understanding of Gods Word.

Little Word, equates to little faith.

One hour on Sunday listening to a man talk of everything except the Word of God does not build a faith in God who cannot fail, but only builds faith in a man who is using the hour to promote men’s works and mans flawed perception of what he can or has accomplished.

From this moment on you cannot say that you do not know.

One of the misconceptions being taught today by far too many ministers is that the Jesus of this generation is all love, compassion, understanding and never condemns anyone.

The truth is this.

The Jesus of the Bible is indeed loving, compassionate, and understanding, but He is to be FEARED, Psalms 89:7 “God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be held in reverence of all them that are about him.”

Isaiah 66:5a “Hear the Word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His Word,”

Jeremiah 5:22 “Fear ye not me? Saith the Lord, will ye not tremble in my presence,”

HE is to be feared by sinful man.

The Jesus of the Bible tells us Mercy rejoices against judgment. James 2:13 “For He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shown no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.”

Jesus is mercy, He is also judgment.

The Jesus of the Bible is a God who very few people know in this lukewarm generation and includes even radio and TV evangelists as well as pulpit ministers , missionaries, and authors, many of whom have forgotten the entire truth of a Holy, Righteous, God , for fear of alienating men who feed the egos of the aforementioned and keep the wheels of their ministries greased by lavishing fortunes upon these who refuse to condemn any man in his sinfulness.

John 3:18 “But he that believeth not is condemned,…19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”

There are so many who have been mislead about the truth of the God of the Bible in this generation that the book of Revelation doesn’t even say a few have not defiled their garments. Revelation 3:1-6

Scripture clearly states that as were the days of Noah were, so shall it be when Jesus returns.

How many people were saved in the days of Noah?

The answer is very few .

1 Peter 3:20 “Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a-preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

ARE WE PREPARED?