Word for 2023: Choose This Day Whom You will Serve

 

Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:14-15

 

There is an urgency in the Spirit these days. Can you feel it? The end of the age is fast approaching, and the Lord is about to judge this evil world. But first, He must judge the church. 

 

Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.
For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1 Peter 4:16-18 

 

I know most of you who follow me here are committed Christians, but let me just say this. The time has come and is here for people to stop playing church, for people to get serious about God and their relationship with Jesus. We, in the USA, and many Western nations have had it so easy for far too long. Our churches have been infiltrated with Free Masons and false Gospels that have led people into believing in a grace of God that doesn't require any sacrifice, a grace that covers willful disobedience and a lukewarm attitude toward our Lord. We love our potlucks, Bible studies, conferences and entertaining worship shows, but what would we do if we actually had to sacrifice something for Jesus?

 

Soon, and I believe it will be this year, the Lord will judge the church and people will be forced to take a side. Are you ALL IN for Jesus, or are you just looking to have your ticket to heaven punched?  I'm sure you've all heard the story where a gunman walks into a church and threatens to shoot anyone professing the name of Jesus and orders the rest to leave. After 90% of the church dash out, the gunman lowers his gun and says. "Here are the real Christians."

 

God isn't kidding. His gift of salvation is FREE for all to receive it, but he requires love and obedience in return... not to earn salvation, but to maintain it... He wants a relationship with you! Jesus didn't suffer and die a horrible death so you could say a prayer and then put him on the back burner of your life. Or worse, dive back into your old, sinful ways. You must bear fruit worthy of repentance!

It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God incurring His judgment and wrath Hebrews 10:31 

 

For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her mire."
2 Peter 2:20-22

 

I believe many Christians may be facing a serious choice this year. We all (including myself) need to sit down and really settle this question in our hearts. What would you do if they ordered you to deny Jesus in order to keep your job, buy food, or go anywhere? Stop and really think about that, especially those of you with families. What would you do? Is your faith strong enough to withstand that pressure? My guess is that 90% of church goers would fail.  Remember they've already tested this with the masks, quarantines, and vaccines. They know many people will capitulate. And when all money becomes digital, they will have the ability to cut you off whenever they want.

 

I'm not saying it will come to that before the rapture, but God is sifting the wheat from the tares. He will test your love and faithfulness to Him and He can only do that by offering you a choice. Who do you trust? Who will you serve?  

 

Most of us have never faced such a difficult choice, but I believe a choice is coming. Jesus wants a bride who loves Him so much, we would die for Him.  He wants His Bride to go out in a blaze of glory! 

 

Trouble is coming in 2023, but we are not to fear. But we must settle in our minds to be ALL IN for Jesus or give into the world system. That choice will either get you raptured or leave you here during the Tribulation (Both which are coming soon) 

 

I'll leave you with some encouragement from the Lord!

 

the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 2 Peter 2:9 

 

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown  

Revelation 3:10-11