Trouble At Our Door, 7/15/14

I have been trying to help Americans see the direness of our condition in America and to help us move to repent but I sense no healthy reaction from hardly any of us. But calamity is at the door and although it cannot be avoided now because we have waited to long we can still begin to repent and move in the right direction if we will but humble ourselves. Please read this account from the scripture on how God will relent in his judgements if people will truly repent and turn from sin:

Jonah 3:4-10New King James Version (NKJV)

4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish? 10 Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

But we need to know that there is nothing that can be done for us if we will not turn to God with all our heart whether we are a believer in Jesus already or not. If you are not a believer in the Lord Jesus as God in the flesh and as your Savior and Lord then give your heart to him today. And if you are a believer it is important you not deceive yourself hat you will be okay because you belong to God, you need to understand this:

1 Peter 4:17New King James Version (NKJV)

17 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?

Judgment STARTS WITH BELIEVERS , when God judges people he judges his children first. So do not be deceived, just believing in God will not save you from judgment. The bible says:

James 2:19

You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!

Only holiness and preparation will help you escape judgment. Many many christians are about to die the in the coming judgments of God, believers who thought they were okay but were self-deceived. This word applies to believers as well as non-beilveers:

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

And many who have waited too long to put their trust in God will be swept into eternity in hell, with no hope of rescue. Please please repent dear friends, God loves you and is eager to help, but only total submission to him will save you through what is coming.

-Steve Pursell, 7/15/14