‘Last Generation’
Luke 21:34-36 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your
hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and
that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those
who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that
you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and
to stand before the Son of Man.”
This warning from
our Lord Jesus Christ that in the last days the great danger to Christians will
be accepting worldliness, which will trap them along with non-believers; and
they will definitely miss rapture.
1 John 2:17-19 Do not love the world or the things in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all
that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is
passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides
forever.
Whoever loves this
world and the things there in, does not love the Father. These are carnal,
worldly, proud and covetous Christians.
James 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know
that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to
be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Whoever befriends
this world loves this world and the things therein, has committed adultery. The bride of the Lamb who loves the world had
made himself an enemy of God.
1 John 3:18-19 By this we know love, because He laid down
His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But
whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up
his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
Our Lord has given
us an example of true love by dying for us so that we do not have to suffer the
fire of hell. We too ought to lay down our lives for our brethren. If anyone
lacks mercy and compassion, then he really loves this world more than God.
Mat 16:23-26 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone
desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses
his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he
gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in
exchange for his soul?”
We are only
pilgrims in this world and then we have to leave this earth to our eternal
destination. What a pity it will be to find ourselves so happy and successful
in this world to be cast down into the everlasting fire.
Doctrines of God always lead us into truth, godliness and
holiness, so that we can be conformed into His image and be with Him in His
everlasting kingdom. But false doctrines, distorted truth and heresies will
always lead to worldliness, carnality, death and destruction leading to eternal
damnation.
Brethren, therefore, since Christ suffered for us in
the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered
in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his
time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For we have
spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we
walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and
abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do
not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. (1
Pet 4:1-4)