Escaping Deception In The Last Days | Get Ready For Christ's Return | Zac Poonen

we there's one thing we want to look at in Matthew 24 we're thinking about coming of the Lord and our being ready for him and Jesus said you know the disciples in Matthew 24 asked him what is the sign of your coming Matthew 24 verse 3 and the end of the age now there are so many people Christian preachers who talk about so many signs like there are many many things Jesus spoke about it but the Jewish people coming back to Israel and wars famines earthquakes and even tribulation of Christians persecuting the Christians between going on a lot all through these centuries but when they asked him what is the sign that's the question in May 2003 when will this happen and what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age he didn't mention any of those other things he said deception what is the sign of Christ's coming increasing deception not that many other things he mentioned there about for example wars but there always been wars in these 20 centuries verse 6 famines and earthquakes they have always been famines and earthquakes and all these 20 centuries and persecution verse 9 they will kill you that's also happened in all these 20 centuries so the sense in which all these things took place has also been deception in the twenty centuries but particularly in the last days deception is going to be one of the primary characteristics of the last days and all also when he writes inspired by the Holy Spirit to Timothy he says in were chucked 1 Timothy 4 and verse 1 the spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith paying attention to deceitful spirits yep and one of the things which Jesus emphasized all emphasized could there be a great deal of deception in the last days and where is this deception going to be manifest in what area I don't you know Jesus said people will say yes he's the Christ but they will still deceive people so it's not going to be teaching about some other God but even when Paul wrote to the Corinthians listen to this he wants the Corinthians about deception in fact he wanted almost all these churches about deception but he wrote to the Corinthians that deception is something that can come it can come to any Church we saw that in 1 Timothy 4 but how can we guard ourselves well first of all if you're going there let me look at 2nd Thessalonians and chapter 2 we'll begin there and then go to the other verses 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 is a very important verse when it concerns deception because here it says that God Himself will allow you to be deceived so you see this in 2nd Thessalonians in chapter 2 it speaks in verse 10 about Satan verse 9 coming with false wonders power and science that means they don't be deception with a lot of supernatural signs and miracles which are false and this is with the deception of wickedness but those who perish and the reason they are deceived it says here in verse 10 is because they did not receive the love of the truth number one and because they didn't want to be saved from sin number two second Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 10 they did not receive the love of the truth they did not want to be saved and big for this reason what reason they did not love the truth they did not want to be saved from sin God will send on them a deluding or deceiving influence so that they believe what is false can you imagine I mean the devil tried to make us believe what is false we can understand and the world tried to make us believe what is false we can understand the Bible says our flesh has got deceitful lusts and that can deceive us but here is the worst it says God you gotta read it exactly like that don't change the words some people like to change the words and say no no that can't be God Holy Spirit says God will send on them a deceiving influence so that they believer his form do you mean God wants some people to believe what is false oh not at all thought its truth he wants all men to be saved he wants all men to repent the Bible says that second Peter 3 1 Timothy 2 God wants all men to be saved he wants all men to repent and come to Christ he does not want anybody to perish 2nd Peter chapter 3 then why does it say he will still allow some people to believe what is false you think God allows some people to believe what is false this God send a influence that dilutes people sure why do I say that because the Bible says that I don't like to change scripture to suit my own understanding I say it exactly like it said and whom does God delude in this way whom does God allowed to be deceived in this way not everybody verse 10 those who don't love the truth and those who don't want to be saved from sin so the only thing I've got to steer clear of in the last days if I want to be a white deception remember jesus said that is the sign is coming men with living de seem you mislead you okay how can I avoid that in the last days how can I be ready for Christ's coming without being deceived well I must love the truth number one that means two things when I hear the word of God either reading the Bible or I hear an anointed message online or in a church and it shows me something in myself which I have tried to cover up or which I did not know about him God he shows me some sin or some wrong attitude or some unforgiving attitude towards someone or anything that God shows me if I love the truth about myself I'll say Lord that's true I love the truth but I hate my flesh which is made me act like that and Lord I'd confess it please forgive me it's true what you said I've got this habit I want to get rid of it help me see then I'm loving the truth I'm not trying to cover it up and say some other reason for example if God shows you that you were wrong in some situation and you immediately try to defend yourself yeah but Lord it was because of this and because of that because that person said like this back said like that God sees you don't love the truth then I tell you you'll be deceived for example when God asked Adam very simple question did you eat from the tree if you love the truth either sin yes God I'm sorry I hate but he went around there trying to put the blame on somebody else but it was because my wife gave it to me and then got us the wife did you eat take this because a serpent gave it to me there is we're putting the blame on others started pointing at something else pointing at the devil pointing it the wife and then I don't love the truth about myself then I'm a prime candidate for being deceived and so whenever God speaks to you near conscience in a particular situation and says you were wrong there what should you do first of all acknowledge it love the truth Lord it's true what you say and go and set it right with that person whom you hurt or whatever God shows you you did wrong you know when Zacchaeus was convicted in his conscience he immediately said Lord I'm gonna repay everything four times what I took and those people whose address I don't know I don't know where they are so I'll give all that money half my goods to the poor so that I my conscience is clear that I don't have any money with me which is not righteously earned and you know that's the only time in the New Testament where we read Jesus saying salvation has come to this house I say and I read that I said Lord I want you to say that about me that salvation has come to me salvation from sin not from hell I've saved from Hell years ago but I want to be saved from sin everyday but Jesus to say salvation has come to this man because he acknowledges the truth and he's willing to set right with others whatever he did wrong and Jesus says truly I say you read that the Gospel of Luke and chapter 19 it's truly salvation has come to this house so wonderful thing and it went on to say there maybe I should show you that passage see there because I remember years ago God speaking didn't do it Luke 19 when Zacchaeus said I'm going to return all that I chose wrongfully jesus said to him this is Luke 19 and Zacchaeus said verse 8 Lord I have anybody I've cheated I'm gonna give back four times and expand his the rest of his statement a lot of people who I don't even know they address where can I give that money I can't keep it in my bank account because it's unrighteous I'll give it to the poor so that in my bank account every cent is righteously earned I'm not going to escape by saying I don't know the address of these people so I can't give it well give it in the offering box that's what I does don't keep it in your bank account because all money ultimately belongs to God if you don't know the owner given back to God and Jesus said today salvation has come to this house and then he said verse 10 the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost now most people when they read that they think I was lost and going to hell and the son of man has come to seek and to save me who was lost hang on always read a verse in its context what was a kiaus lost in he was a crooked tax collector he was lost in the love of money and Jesus came to seek and to save not somebody who was going to help primarily though he was going to help but he was lost in the love of money once he was being saved from hell if you're not saved from the love of money you won't be saved from hell the Son of Man let me expand it the Son of man has come in the context of the whole ten versus the Son of Man let me read the whole thing salvation has come to this house - Zacchaeus is house because the son of man has come to seek and to save all those like Zacchaeus who are lost in the love of money I read that years ago I said Lord I'm lost in the love of money many years ago I said Lord honestly I can't say I'm 100% free from the love of money Lord Jesus like you were in my standard is Jesus Christ not something zealous Christian on earth I'm not free from it like you were Lord and you want to make me like you and I want to be safe from it I'm lost in it says you we came to seek and to save those who are lost in their love of money but I raised my hand and I said Laura I lost a lot of money saved me and God began to save me little by little by little by little in numerous ways I remember once he allowed me to you use a lot of money I said Lord why did you allow that you could have saved me from using that and the Lord said well you were praying that you should be saved from the love of money this is just part of the process I said praise the Lord do it completely Lord do it thoroughly so that I am my goal is to be as free from the love of money as Jesus was I want to ask all of you sitting and listening to me and he honestly say that's your goal what do you want to be like Jesus in just being kind and loving others and preaching what about this primary area jesus said you cannot love God and love mine pray this prayer Lord I want to be as free from the love of money as you were Lord Jesus I prayed it and I keep praying it I'll never be satisfied till I'm completely free I love the truth about myself that's why I said that I didn't want to pretend oh I I don't receive any money for my preaching I've never received any salary from any church I'm free from all that we are better than other churches therefore I'm free from the love of money I don't deceive myself like I said I know that the love of money is so deeply rooted in every human being and I'm not yet become like Jesus in that area I want to be like him I don't want to glory in the fact that I support myself like the Apostle Paul and I don't take any money from anybody am I crazy that's it's a very small thing it doesn't mean you're free from the love of money you made me better than X Y or Z that doesn't mean you're free from the love of money you think Jesus your standard very often we compare ourselves with people and other churches even here other pastors other preachers say I'm free from the love money deception prepare yourself don't ever compare yourself with anybody else that's what I mean by loving the truth about yourself and I've seen that when I don't love the truth about when I love the truth about myself god protects me from deception deception primary mark of the last days God will not allow me to be deceived another we're talking about the love of the truth and wanting to be saved from sin God shows me the other area where we need to love the truth is when I read something in Scripture which is totally different or slightly different from the way I had believed something if I don't love the truth that is God's Word and that's not what I believe that's what I believed in my church for so many years you say but so what your church was wrong I see this in God's Word if I don't love the truth their God will allow me to be deceived I know numerous people or deceived like this I'll tell you in my own case I told you I came out from the orthodox syrian orthodox church they sprinkled me when i was a little baby and called it baptism when I was born again in July 1915 of 1 July 1959 61 years ago I knew around me I was going to an assembly where they were all baptized after conversion and I was not baptized and there's some people in the Orthodox Church told me if you get baptized they'll throw you out to the Orthodox Church and then you won't be able to witness to the people there the other people who need salvation you're going to an assembly where everybody is saved then they don't need to listen to the message of salvation they've already saved how can you save these people in the Orthodox Church and you get thrown out of there so don't get baptized I said oh yeah that's a good argument I don't want to be thrown out of the Orthodox Church I want to be there so that I can witness to them but every time I knelt down but I studied the Bible and I'm from the Bible clearly taught there's no such thing as child baptism it's only believers baptism so every time I knelt down to pray I felt the Lord saying to me you're not listening to me why should I listen to you and I got really bothered by that after one and a half years of struggling 1 and a half years after being born again I began to love the truth what the Word of God had shown me I began to accept it and I did not accept the argument that if I stay in that church I'll be able to save them the Lord showed me you're not gonna save anybody I'm the one who saves people the Lord said so I decided I don't care which church throws me out I'm going to obey God in His Word and that was the first step I took obey God's Word and reject what I had learned all my life in Christianity and I was delivered from deception because from that moment you know what happened God saw that I obeyed him in that area and little by little God began to show me many other things that many other Christians were believing and many other churches were teaching which are not found in the Word of God I went to an assembly where they did not believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit or the gifts of the Spirit of healing or speaking in tongues or they didn't believe in all that is all finished I also believe that for some time but I was so desperate in my life I didn't have power in my life and I began to see God and I say I don't care what this church I go to believe they believe in water baptism but they don't believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit so I began to see God and I went to a Pentecostal church there they said you have to speak in tongues and I saw them babbling some things didn't sound like a language to me at all and they were shouting and yelling and I didn't seek godliness in their life the pastor's love money and I said lord I don't want that please give me the genuine baptism Holy Spirit even if it takes 10 years I want I love the truth I don't want anything which is not absolutely true I don't want to get some cheap experience say yeah I also that does know what see use of that if I don't have power to overcome sin power to be a bold witness for Christ so I said I will not be satisfied Lord until you are sure me and you give me power I don't want to deceive myself I read in the word it is there and I waited and I prayed and I went through a lot of times of discouragement but God met with me and that changed my life completely when God genuinely baptized me in the Holy Spirit and I discovered that speaking in tongues was not the evidence of it though I did speak in tongues that is not the evidence one of the gifts when I read the Word of God it's just do all speak in tongues the answer is no but there are churches that preach that everybody must speak in tongues now it's a choice what are you gonna believe you're gonna believe God's Word in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 or am I gonna believe what some churches preach again I said I'm gonna believe God's Word that is what is protecting me from being deceived by the thing jesus said let me turn back to Matthew 24 let me read this Matthew 24 disciples asked him Lord what is be Phe the one sign of your coming Matthew 24 verse 3 and Jesus said see to it that nobody deceives you then he spoke about other things wars famines and all that but again he comes back to deception verse 10 many will fall away and verse 11 many false prophets will arise and deceive people again deception yeah and then further down verse 24 again false Christ's and false prophets will arise and will again deceive people with signs and wonders I've told you in advance verse 25 see how many times he repeats about deception in that he talks about the last days he doesn't get bit about famines and Wars and or the other things so often but he repeats again and again in deception and he says verse 25 behold I have told you in advance yet people think don't take it seriously that's what made me desperate to find out how can I make sure that I'm not deceived at all that's what led me to second Thessalonians 2 and verse 10 and 11 where the Lord said if you love the truth about yourself number one whenever you hear something that convicts you you say yes acknowledge it and secondly you read the Word of God and find it's completely different from what you believed all your life forget what you believed all your life and accept the word of God that's loving the truth and the whole purpose is to be safe your primary desire in life must anice be saved from everything that is sinful so you love the truth about yourself love the truth that you've seen the Word of God and want to be saved from all sin God guarantees you will not be deceived all the others God Himself will deceive them and they will believe what his false first eleven but he's going to follow this the warnings given in verse 10 I will never believe what his false everything I believe will be the truth that's a wonderful comfort for me because I don't want to spend my life on earth believing something that is false and wake up finally in eternity and discover that I was deceived turn with me to Matthew chapter 7 Matthew 7 and verse 22 speaking about the last day of judgment Matthew 7 and verse 22 many will say to me on that day Lord Lord didn't we prophesy in your name offices one of the gifts of the Spirit this is not in some foreign God's name in the name of Jesus they prophesied didn't we cast out demons in your name in the name of Jesus they cast out demons and in the name of Jesus they did not 1 miracle but many miracles genuine miracles not these fake ones that a lot of people are claiming to do today and I will say to them I never knew you go to hell depart from me depart from me means go to hell in the last day and you stand before the Lord and the Lord says get away from me there's only one place to go to that's hell depart from me you who practice sin that's the point sin is lawlessness your problem was not that you didn't do miracle though you didn't prophecy the problem was you lived in sin so what is the reason why the Lord sent them away because they practiced sin so there again I see the same thing I love the truth I can do miracles in Jesus name cast out demons in Jesus name prophesy in Jesus name that means preach powerful messages in Jesus name but if I'm not free from sin in my life one day when I stand before the Lord the Lord is here I'm not bothered by your doing all this in my name casting out demons and healing the sick and preaching what was your attitude to see me I never knew you if I knew you you would not sin I learned something else from that what is the mark of knowing the Lord I will not live in sin I never knew you where's Matthew 24 23 and you practice sin in the connection because I never knew you you practice sin I knew you wouldn't be practicing sin Oh I'm sharing with you what the Lord showed me and how important it is to be protected from deception in these days very very important and I saw one of the ways in which I can protect myself from deception is let me show you let me turn you back to one Tennessee you know we must read a Bible in its context always read the Bible in its context in one you know for example let me tell you something that in the original New Testament letters as they were written all did not put chapter divisions and verses and all that known and that was just a few hundred years ago people put in these chapters and divisions and verses so that we can refer to something easy otherwise it was a big long letter when you write a letter you don't put chapters and verses so when you read the Gospels and the New Testament don't stop and the end of a chapter read on because the thought may be continued into the next verse many many times I've seen that you stopped at one point and you miss a connection with the next chapter so nowadays when I read the Bible or not nowadays for many many years now when I read the Bible I'm reading a chapter I don't stop at the end of the chapter I go on to the next few verses and see if there's a connection and very often there's a connection and here's one of those examples because 1 Timothy 4 we read it earlier the Spirit explicitly says that in the latter times in the last days some will fall away from the faith paying attention to deceitful spirits so what is the connection it says but but means it's connected in the previous verse now we understand something now let me connect it to the previous version 1 Timothy 3:16 great is the mystery of godliness Christ was revealed in the flesh and was pure in his spirit now the Living Bible puts it the best way that I can think of it says like this it is true that the way to live a godly life is not an easy matter that we all agree but the answer lies in Christ who came as a man and his Spirit was pure see that's the thing that man has never been able to keep his spirit pure because of his flesh so the way to live a godly life is not an easy matter because we have a flesh but the answer lies in Christ who came as a man and kept his spirit pure and even the angel saw it and testified to it it says in that verse that is the way to live a godly life to see the secret of Jesus came in my flesh no sin in him when he had a will of his own which he denied even and get cemani and thus he lived a godly life filled with the Holy Spirit denying his will he lived a holy life and he calls me also to be filled with the Holy Spirit pick up my cross every day deny my will and I can follow him and then it goes on to say but see the connection but in the last days the Holy Spirit's some will fall away from this faith and we see that happening around how many churches do you feel or have you come across but teach the way to live a godly life is by seeing how Jesus came as a man and overcame have you heard that on the internet in any message have you heard any church consistently preaching at me preached for forty five years but the Spirit says in the last days people will follow away from that faith follow away from that way of becoming dark and they will turn aside to deceit deception and that's because their own conscience verse 2 is not sensitive their conscience has died it's like if your skin is branded with I am that's part of the skin guys and it says your your conscience can be branded like that it becomes dead and they began to teach there are other ways to become godly for example was 3 don't get married there are people teaching that you want to be holy don't get married or you must fast don't eat certain foods avoid certain things and different ways of becoming godly all a deception the real way of becoming godly is 1 Timothy 3:16 to see Christ who came like us and was tempted like us and did not sin and to ask God to give me revelation on that you know in Matthew chapter 16 it says Jesus once asked his disciples in Matthew 16 verse 15 who do you say that I am see in those days everybody thought in the world Israel thought Christ was a man it was just a man he's not God he's not the Messiah he's a man he's a man he's a man then you know some said oh he's a good man maybe a prophet like Elijah verse 14 matthew 16 14 or Jeremiah or one of the prophets but still a man then jesus said to his disciples what about you who do you say that I am verse 15 Matthew 16 and Peter said you're not a man you're the Messiah the Son of the Living God the second person of the Trinity equal with the father and the Holy Spirit you are God Almighty the second person of the Trinity and Jesus said blessed are You Simon let me paraphrase it you didn't discover that with your cleverness or because somebody taught it to you my father give your revelations my father gave you a revelation in your spirit about this and everybody around 30 was a mangie Peter saw this is not a man this is Almighty God who's come in human form those days the problem was people thought Christ was a man they didn't realize he was God today with Christians the problem is they think he's only God they don't realize he came as a man what about today in heaven let me tell you what the Bible says in 1 Timothy in chapter 2 read carefully 1 Timothy 2 and verse 5 there is one God and one mediator between God and man who the man Christ Jesus so Jesus when he came to earth and became man he's been a become a man forever he doesn't cease to be God he was God on earth also and the proof of that is on earth he read in the Gospels seven times people worshipped him and he didn't lift him up like the angels did when people try to worship the angel saying don't worship Me he accepted it which is the clearest proof that when he was on earth he was God he forgives sins especially in the fact that he accepted worship and you read even in Revelation no angel would accept worship the when he was on earth he was gone he never cease to be God when he came to earth as a man he did not cease to be God and when he went back to heaven he did not cease to be a man he's called your the man Christ Jesus some people say God man that's not a expression found in the Bible never I wouldn't use it I save a man Christ Jesus God Almighty became a man he is God still but he's a man but he's not an example for me as God but I cannot follow him if he came to earth as God I can follow him because he came to earth as a man the secret of godliness is not in the god man Christ Jesus I can never follow a god man because I'm not a god man the secret of godliness is in Christ Jesus who came as a man and who did not use his divine power to overcome sin I often used this example and I never get tired of using it if an angel wanted to teach me how to swim in a swimming pool and comes with his wings and flies across the pool and says follow me I'd say hey angel I can't follow you I can admire you how to fly across if I had wings I could follow you but if you want to teach me how to swim get rid of your wings you're an angel you're still an angel but get rid of your wings and be subject to the law of gravity like I am but when you go into that swimming pool you go down then teach me how to swim isn't that right it's true the bird for example can teach you how to swim cuz he can fly across so if Jesus came to earth and he used all his power as God to overcome sin I'd see a Lord I can't follow you don't even ask me to do it and Jesus would not be foolish to ask us to follow him if he overcame sinners with the power of God and does me to overcome as a man the secret of living a godly life it's not an easy thing 1 Timothy 3:16 the answer lies in Christ who came as a man and kept his spirit pure throughout his life I was defeated by sin for many many years after I was born again for more than 16 years I wasn't going around committing adultery or murder no no I kept the 10 commandments but my thought life particularly anger I was defeated well I would confess and I'd be forgiven I'd confess sadly forgiven I'd wanted victory I wanted big treatment tell you after about 16 17 years one day God opened my eyes to see Jesus came like you and the power of the Holy Spirit what his own will to death and did the Father's will [Music] Lord said you can do the same I said not really you mean I can overcome anger and dirty thoughts and wrong attitudes you mean I'll be able to forgive everybody who harms me and we never have an unforgiving spirit towards a single human being yes like Jesus changed my life more than 40 years ago it's on the basis of that truth that we built TSE the baptism in the Holy Spirit enabling us to follow Jesus in his footsteps looking unto Jesus we run the race so this is the truth from which the spirit says in 1 Timothy 4:1 deception will come in the last days and I've seen it happen I've seen how people fight against it they fight against it and I'll tell you why they fail to fight against it because they want to live in sin that's why so I want to encourage all of you to think about this seriously ask yourself if you are defeated by sin whether you have seen the secret of godliness remember what Jesus said the great sign of the last days is deception do not be deceived and if you don't love the truth about yourself and you don't want to be saved from sin you don't have a passion and desire to be saved from sin God will allow you to meet you see because God is testing people I believe even when you read the Bible God is testing people for example I'll give you one verse Luke chapter 16 you gotta love the truth now love the truth then read this verse Luke 16 verse 13 no servant can serve two masters and the two masters are not God and Satan that I can easily understand well the two masters are God and money and you will be devoted to one and despise the other you'll hate the one and love the other so I said Lord what does this mean I cannot love God and money if there's a slight bit of love of money in my heart in that area I don't love God it's clear according to this verse if I want to love the Lord with all my heart I have to make sure there's zero love of money in my heart cuz I want God to show it to me and it doesn't come all of a sudden little by little in different situations God shows me and I say Lord I want to be free from that the love of money is like an onion you see something you peel it off I've got rid of it no another situation another layer another layer so what I've been doing to the past 40 years is reducing the size of this onion called the love of money as God shows me little by little by little by little I want to go to the center where there's zero then I become like Jesus in being completely free from the love of money that'll happen when he comes but until that day I'm pressing on to perfection you know what pressing on to perfection means reducing these things your do you see the size of this onion of the flesh with all its lusts as I see it confess it forsake it ask for the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome it it's like killing the Giants of Canaan one by one kill the Giants akin and occupy the land kill another giant occupy the land but they used that illustration or use the illustration of peeling the onion the aim is to possess the land this whole body of Christ completely well you gotta love the truth here and I said lord I want to see I want to see it honestly and I will not be able to serve God if I love money how do I know whether I'm serving daughter money this is the test very simple test buzzing there's a person called a sitting in front of me here at a person called be sitting in front of me here and both of them say Zack is my servant very easy to find out you tell them a and B call Zack tells like to come to you and they say Zack come here whoever I go to my servant I go to a I'm a sermon I go to be I'm a servant okay now apply that to God and money here's God and here's money and God's calling you in one direction and money is pulling you in another direction which call do you respond to whether you like it or not whether you call yourself spirit for the believer or not you are a servant of money if you love the truth you'll be free from it but if you don't face up to you no no no I'm quite spiritual all you're like you'll be deceived mm-hmm your brothers sister I'm serious you're approaching the end of time we want to meet the Lord with as much of this wretched onion eliminated from our lives you want to live a life rejoicing in the Lord who were coming and useful to God I really believe many many believers even in CFC churches are not useful to God because there's a love of something else in their heart they are not cleanse themselves from I long to see so many brothers and sisters mightily used by God in CFC churches they are not being used they're just sitting there as passive members it means there's something they love more than God and why does God free them from it it allows them to be deceived because they don't love the truth about themselves they think they're very spiritual they think oh we are better than those other churches or you keep saying that you're better than other churches you'll never get light on yourself forget about the other churches forget about the other believers Tay Lord show me where I'm comes out of becoming like Christ never compare yourself with other believers compare yourself only with Jesus Christ that's all make that decision in your life I will only compare myself with Christ looking at in Jesus they run the race and we press on to perfection then we are ready for his coming and little by little refined and becoming like him one last verse 1 John chapter 3 1 John chapter 3 speaking about the Lord's coming and I hope you have to be ready for it so long the line I was just speaking 1 John chapter 3 verse 2 beloved we are already children of God verse 2 1 John 3:2 we are born again but it is not yet but come up here and what we will be when we see him when he appears then we will be like him till now we are not like him it does not yet appear that we'll be like him but when he appears 1 John 3:2 we will be like him that is our goal our goal is to be like him and how do you know whether do you have this hope in you or not every one of you say yo my book is to be like Jesus when he comes hang on verse 3 if you really have this hope you will be purifying yourself every single day until you reach his standard of purity in every area Lord I want to forgive people like you forgive I want to be free from the love of money like you are free I want to be free from dirty thoughts like you were free I want to be free from murmuring and grumbling like you were free I want to be free from anger uh you were free I want to purify myself eating off the layers of the onion until I reach your standard of purity that's how we are ready for his coming that's fair Heavenly Father please help us to take your word seriously to be ready for your return we pray in Jesus name [Music]

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Published: Mon Apr 20 2020