TOPIC: IF THE RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED, WHERE SHALL THE UNGODLY AND SINNER BE?

-WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THIS MATTER-
Beloved, think not strange, concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings: that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part, He is glorified.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil doer, or as a busy-body in other men’s matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be shamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner be?

Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator…..1ST PETER 4:12-19.

-WHAT GOD IS SAYING ABOUT THIS MATTER-
Men and brethren, I have written it before, and I here repeat it again, even weeping in my heart, that very, very few folks in the Church of today will make it if rapture takes place now. For the present Church is largely made of pretenders, hypocrites, liars, fornicators, seducers, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, covenant breakers, thieves, covetous, racists, tribalists, murderers, harlots, flatterers, mockers of holiness and purity, bribe takers and bribe givers, smokers and drunkards, - folks that expose their nakedness in public – enemies of righteousness. The list is endless. To say the least, there is great unrighteousness in the ways of the present Church.

And it is written, “that the unrighteous, shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God”. Please study First Corinthians chapter Six, particularly verses nine and ten.

Let me also remind all believing folks, that nothing that defiles shall enter the kingdom of our Father. Therefore gays, lesbians, masturbators, and all sexual perverters have no place in the kingdom of our Father. Even, “the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers and whore-mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters – including those who play politics with the word of God – shall all have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

People of God, all that is written above concerns those that are already saved. It has absolutely nothing to do with unbelievers, that is, with those who are yet to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. Nobody is saved by doing good things – salvation is entirely by faith. But once one is saved, he or she is now required to live righteously, to go about doing good just as Christ, to bear the fruits of righteousness – to manifest the holiness and the purity that are in Christ Jesus. And it is when this righteous living is in place that one can rightly be described as a Christian, which by interpretation means Christ-like, and that is when that person’s name is retained in the Lamb’s book of life.

BELIEVERS WHO ARE CONTINUALLY WALKING IN THE FLESH AND MANIFESTING UNRIGHTEOUSNESS NO LONGER HAVE THEIR NAMES IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE. If you doubt this, you can easily check up your eternal status. How? Just make a simple prayer – ask the Lord to confirm to you whether your name is still in the Book. This is one of the prayers that receive the fastest of answers from heaven, yet many are not even willing to ask such an all important question. They prefer to go about professing what they are not.

Brethren, let us not go about following vain and adulterous teachings of men and women of questionable lifestyles, who are determined to share their sinful lifestyles as the gospel of Jesus Christ. Such preachers often cite some writings of Apostle Paul to justify their adulterous and deceitful ways. Yet they cannot show any evidence where same Apostle Paul walked in sin and compromise! Again, they usually cite the grace of God, but for the wrong reasons. For when Apostle Paul declared that he was whatever he became by the grace of God, he was simply affirming his righteous and holy lifestyle, even his flourishing apostleship. He was not by any means referring to a life of shame, of compromise and of impunity. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is not unto wickedness but unto godly living.

Have you not heard some preachers who usually warn believers not to listen to any message that would make them to doubt their salvation? Well, that sounds godly enough. But most of the preachers that say such things are actually those that lie to believers, that once one is saved, he or she remains saved forever. And to shield their hearers from the truth, they keep warning them to jealously guard their “salvation” – not to allow any other preacher to cause them to doubt their “salvation”. They embolden them by telling them that, after all ,salvation is by faith – that what one does after being saved does not affect ones salvation.

But the truth about this matter is that most of those involved in this great deception do not even have any salvation to guard! They have since lost it to a life of shame and impunity. And they know it in their spirit man that they are no longer in right standing with the Lord. Yet, out of share impudence and pride, they keep telling themselves and to whoever is interested, that they are the righteousness of Christ. They often cite some few scriptures, especially from the book of Romans, to back up their deceitful claims. To these folks, some parts of the Bible are not for Christians, at all at all. To them whatever is written in the Bible that is not in line with their perverted thoughts must be discountenanced. And sadly enough the numbers of such are on daily increase, even in the body of Christ.

But what these folks have not bordered to ask themselves is this: the folks that preached such messages and died believing such, where are they? At least, all over the world, we have heard thousands of confirmed and genuine testimonies of those who have been to heaven and to hell and came back to life again. How many of them have testified that they saw any of such preachers in heaven? And you that is living in sin and compromise and claiming the righteousness of Christ: is Christ a Minister of sin? You that is calling “Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost” and still living in sin and wickedness, is the Holy Ghost the author of sin? Search yourselves whether you are still in this faith. And repent if need be, before it is too late.

Brethren, granted, there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. But this ONLY applies to those believers who walk not after the flesh but after the righteousness that is in Christ. Please study the scripture and do not follow the majority to do evil. Note this: even if you are saved, the word of God condemns you if you continue in wickedness and every manner of unrighteousness – that is, if you continue not in what you have learned of Christ Jesus. And I condemn no one, but the very word of God you hear condemns, you if you are living in sin even as a believer!

Brethren, we that are saved are to be judged by our works of righteousness, and that is the scripture. But unbelievers are already condemned even before the judgment day! Every unbeliever remains under condemnation until saved. For whosoever has not received Christ as Lord and Savior is already condemned, even without further judgment. For as it is written, Our “God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but HE THAT BELIVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, BECAUSE HE HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD”. See John 3:17-18.

It is therefore great wickedness and a reproach to the body of Christ, for any believer, and indeed, any preacher of this gospel, to even suggest that folks from the so-called “other religions” may also be saved. This is great deception and a message from the pit of hell itself. Perhaps those unbelievers may be saved, but certainly not unto eternal life in Christ Jesus. For except they repent, and come to Jesus Christ, and continue in Him till the end, they will all perish, without exception.

Men and brethren, there is no religion in heaven. Every talk about other religions will end here. There is ONLY ONE WAY TO HEAVEN, AND THAT WAY IS CHRIST JESUS. For it is written, that ”Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” See Acts of the Apostles 4:12.

The world is busy talking about religious intolerance. But who is not tolerating who? There is no intolerance in Christ Jesus. Our mandate as Christians is to call folks to repentance and no more no less. We tolerate everybody, for necessity is upon us to do so - for our Lord Jesus Christ came, not to save the righteous, but to call sinners to repentance. But we do not tolerate sin and sinful pleasures. And if that is what the world calls intolerance, then let us be. Let God be true and let all men and women be liars and thieves!

Those that are fighting Christians are doing so because they are not saved. They are agents of satan – they are just seeking for human blood to sacrifice to their master, the devil. All they need is salvation, not negotiation – we cannot negotiate with satan. And when they are saved they will stop fighting. On the other hand, any person fighting and claiming to be doing so for Christ is under some delusion. For the weapons of a true Christian warfare are not carnal – we war not after the flesh.

People of God, Jesus Christ has sent me to remind you, that He will surely judge the quick and the dead. See Acts of the Apostles 10:42. Yes, indeed, He will judge the world, even His own people – in righteousness and in holiness, even in love! And that judgment will start right inside His Church. And even the very righteous shall scarcely be saved, not to talk of those who reject the sacrifice Christ made on Calvary. Indeed, it shall be such a horrendous day for the wicked and all workers of iniquity – a day of regret and sorrow, a day of “had I known”.

Brethren, true Christianity is a way, and a treacherous way indeed - a very slippery way for that matter. But it is a way that ends in heaven. True Christianity is also an endurance race, and only those that will endure till the end shall truly be saved! Keep pressing in.