Walking with Christ

The devil will stop at nothing to deceive you into falling away. The biggest mistake most Christians make, is that they assume the devil is dumb and predictable. That he is a horned red monster with a pitchfork that dances in hellfire. That he only comes at you with obvious sinful temptation. This couldn't be farther from the truth. He is the Father of All Lies and the Master Deceiver. He appears to the Christian as an angel of light, twisting the Word of God to sound pleasant to sinful desires and filling your mind with the age old lie, "Did God really say? Did God really mean?"....Take heed O Christian that you stand, lest you fall.

Keep your eyes on Christ, even when something is screaming in your face to look at this or that. Keep your ears trained upon His voice, even when there are conflicting or even pleasant, honeyed voices whispering in your ear. Keep your mind on God's Word, even when your flesh screams out that it is boring or there are things needing done. Lastly, keep your heart centered upon the Lord, even when it is broken, sick, weak, wounded, and rejected.

Walking with Christ is not a simple easy walk in the park with blue skies and rainbows as most preachers would have you believe. It is not receiving guaranteed financial blessings whenever you "sow seeds". It is not repeating "powerful" formula prayers in the hopes of getting positive results, like some magic spell. It is not attending a church, singing in the choir, or even teaching a Sunday school class because all good Christians do. It is not telling people that Jesus loves them even if they choose a lifestyle of sin, and offering up a false encouragement in the form of greasy grace.

Walking with Christ means suffering for Biblical truths, and enduring spiritual warfare as all Hell comes after you to shut you up and destroy your witness. It is crawling in the mud bloodied and bruised (figuratively AND literally for some), and constantly fighting the desires of the flesh that wants only temporal pleasure and happiness.

Walking with Christ means being an outcast, rejected by even those in the churches. It means having your neighbors, coworkers, and family members ignore you or exclude you. It means having people laugh at you because they think you're strange, outdated, or in a cult. It means trying to explain why you do what you do, and having them get mad at you and call you selfish, radical, ignorant, etc.... It means having everyone reject you because you're different and don't go along with the flow.

Many in these last days will fall away because they will allow the devil to catch them off their guard. Many have already fallen away because they put their hope and trust in man's solutions rather than God. Many have done this simply through laying down the foundation for the Revelations 13 Mark of the Beast (mRNA covid arm pokes), laying it in their bodily temples, still scoffing at those staying true to Christ. Those with the foundation (mRNA covid arm pokes) will continue to build upon it until the Mark has wholly consumed them and their worship of the Beast is apparent to even themselves, especially once the Son of Perdition has been revealed.

Many have already fallen away because their love for this world and physical things, even their love of religion, has taken their heart away from Christ. It's all about church to them, freedom, patriotism, health, this, that, etc.... rather than the LORD Jesus. I find that some of the most idolatrous Christians are those in the church buildings on Sunday. How grievous it is to the Lord! So many long for holidays and sports events over meeting Him and worshipping before Him. So many have their hearts set on their careers, their ministries, and their congregational reputation/image - rather than making sure they are walking in obedience and righteousness, storing up for themselves treasures in Heaven.

Falling away does not mean one no longer attends "a" church. Falling away means that one no longer seeks the Lord and doesn't care. They may still do the "church" thing with religious zeal, but their heart does not belong to the Lord. Beware the fallen away, they will be the ones who will turn you in first and with gladness in the days to come. The true church will be the ones who will care for you at the risk of their own life. The true church will rebuke your sin, even if it means you walk away from them in anger. The true church will stand up for Christ, even if it means jail, torture, exile, or death.

The world rises up in rebellion against authority, against worldly schemes, and against the Lord Himself. The church is being called to stand firm and endure until the end. Man can never offer a solution, but the Lord's promises endure forever. Satan is the Master Deceiver, but Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Choose Jesus, even if your very own church does not. Choose Jesus, even if your doctors call you a dangerous fool. Choose Jesus, even if your career ends, the stores prohibit your entry, and threats are being breathed down your neck from every angle.

Choose Jesus, and great will your reward be in the end. Deny Jesus and compromise (It's just a little poke in the arm right? It's just a little implant, it's just a job, it's innocent, it's....?) and He will deny you before all heaven.

17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

- 2 Peter 3:17-18

13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

- 2 Corinthians 11:13-15

But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

- Mathew 10:33

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."

- Matthew 16:24