In 2 Timothy Paul urged us:
12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
You can be assured that we will need to operate in “every good work” going forward. Why? Because the unrighteous will attempt to use every resource possible to justify their ungodly actions. Those people will be observed as: lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. We are to avoid such people for they will be the persecutors of those who are righteous unless FATHER has us minister to them in HIS anointing.
In these days of communications becoming “instant” with the advent of the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc. people are bombarded with noise. This noise can become deafening and move people like a herd of gazelles. Unrighteous people will target and vilify those who are walking with FATHER in order to convince the masses otherwise. Paul warns us of the evil intent of the ungodly so we must be vigilant to spend time daily with FATHER in order that we be not moved by the noise and the masses.
We are urged to be steadfast in what FATHER has revealed to us and not allow men to convince us to take another path. This path HE has placed us on is narrow and will not be popular especially among the masses in the end times. Jesus told us that He is the Way and warns us in Matthew chapter 7:
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
His statement confirms that many people will miss the Narrow Gate. However those who consistently focus on aligning themselves with FATHER’S Character of Divine unconditional Love will stay firmly on the path to Spiritual maturity. By doing so they will be kept from the brunt of the judgment sure to come.
I find it interesting how people will focus only on certain aspects of Scripture that fit their agenda rather than being open to “All” Scripture. It is similar to looking only at FATHER’S works and spending no time in knowing HIS Character. If you know HIS Intent, you will understand and appreciate HIS Works.
In the epistle of James we are warned:
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;
24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
As we continue in our study, contemplation, and purification of and by the Word, we will be complete and lacking nothing. We will be a blessing to all of mankind.