MY FRIENDS, THE MASTER HAS DELAYED HIS COMING NOW WHAT?
“Blessed is that servant whom his Master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,…..the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites..” Matt 24:45-51 (NKJV)
My friends if you listen to our modern day prophets, prophet meaning the Shepherd’s chosen to speak for God and to guide His flock in all truth and understanding as the Spirit Guides them through His word, you would think God’s word was obsolete and void of any real consequences if the precepts were not adhered to. In many instances our all-knowing, all-powerful, Omnipresence God has been reduced to a trivial being.
If you just live within the grey areas of life you will be all right, being good is the new, being perfect. But Christ tells us in Matt 5:48 (KJV) “Be ye
therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” My friends we are all servants of God with a ministry and a message that we must begin to reveal to the world. We cannot become complacent because the Master has delayed His coming.
For soon, “the Master will come on a day when we His servants are not looking for Him, and at an hour that we are not aware of,” and each who have not taken His coming seriously will receive their just reward or their “portion with the hypocrites.” But “blessed is that servant whom his Master, when he comes, will find so doing,” and working and feeding His flock.”
Remember at one time “God overlooked and disregarded the former ages of ignorance; but now He commands all people everywhere to repent [that is, to change their old way of thinking, to regret their past sins, and to seek God’s purpose for their lives], Acts 17:30 (AMP) And that is especially true for God’s servants, for the more we know “the greater our responsibility.” But my friends, non are without excuse.
“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Romans 1:20-21 (NKJV)
The world is closer than ever before in witnessing the return of Christ second coming. There has never been a time as now where getting the good news to a dying world is more urgent. God’s prophecy says “Babylon is fallen,” its forces of evil are falling, our powerful political and judicial system is falling, the powerful economic system that has degraded the poor is now falling.
The strongly entrenched and popular religions who did not follow God’s precepts in His word but stole from their flock in the name of God is falling. In addition, the extremists who have influenced the masses against our Creator and said there is no God and no consequences for evil will fall the hardest. My friends, “narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life” But, it is only difficult if we have refused to allow God’s Spirit to transform our Character into the image of Christ.
Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.
Amen!