Daily Devotional, Year 3 – May 21 (All Comfy-Cozy In Hell, Part 5: “Finding A Comfy-Cozy Congregation?”)
By admin On February 14th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – May 21
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All Comfy-Cozy In Hell,
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Part 5:
“Finding A Comfy-Cozy Congregation?”
To read Part 1, click here…” March 27th (All Comfy-Cozy in Hell!)”
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In the early days of the Church, the Lord established the local congregations as a safe-haven for believers to congregate together, to worship, to fellowship together in the name of Jesus.
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Mostly, these congregations met together in some Believer’s home.
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There were no church buildings or at best just a few, because they would have been quickly destroyed by the Antichrist forces of that day.
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Family Bible Reading – Sabbath Eve – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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WORLD & CHURCH AT PEACE
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But today, it seems that the world and the Church has made peace together.
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And so, the Christian community was now able to build designated church buildings, which were mostly free from anti-Christian tyranny.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who offers a world-loving gospel – www.signsofheaven.org
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“WHEN THEY SHALL SAY, ‘PEACE & SAFETY…THEN SHALL COME SUDDEN DESTRUCTION”
1st Thessalonians 5:3
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And because of this so-called “peace-treaty” between the world and the Church, many or perhaps most of the parishioners likewise lived in peace and safety in this Antichrist world.
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We lived at peace. We held jobs. We raised nice families.
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And we engaged in recreation each weekend, and all went to church on Sabbath morning.
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Church Attendance – www.thebiblerevival.com – Public Domain
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SOCIAL EVENTS GALORE
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And let’s be honest. Churches make really great social/fraternal organizations.
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They are a great place to get together for potlucks. They sometimes go on outings together.
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They often have bingo nights, many have parties, bazaars, dances, car-washes and various other social events.
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They have wedding ceremonies and baby showers.
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They often have sports teams.
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Some of them offer “Christian” schooling.
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Some have “movie night” in which all come together to watch some Hollywood movie.
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A few of the mega-churches even have their own built-in shopping centers and coffee shops!
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And several churches even offer “Happy Hour” in which they open up a bar, serving libations.
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Church music – Singers & Dancers – cropped photo – Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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“FOR THE TIME WILL COME…”
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But listen to this prophecy concerning these end-times…
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears;”
2nd Timothy 4;3, 4
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This above verse paints a bleak picture of the total apostasy of the church-world in these last moments of time!
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ABOVE PHOTO: church evangelist – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“STRAIT IS THE GATE…AND FEW…FIND IT”
Matthew 7:14
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Yes, church-life, to a great extent, has become a fraternal/social organization, merely overlaid with a veneer of religiosity.
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And there are many parishioners who are very content to have it this way!
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Because let’s face it! There are many worldly-minded parishioners who want little more than to have a weekly fraternal organization to meet the social/religious needs of themselves and their families!
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And they can also “get blessed” too, with a benign, non-judgmental prosperity-driven gospel, combined with jokes and singing.
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Seems pretty nice!
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Rock Music Christian CHURCH – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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MORALITY-BASED RELIGION
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There is a very prevalent gospel in today’s world which is morality-based.
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But such a moralistic religiosity falls, far short of true Christianity…
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…true Christianity in which God does a daily purifying work in the genuine Believer’s heart, thus changing him or her into the self-sacrificing likeness of Christ…
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…battling daily against the invisible forces of darkness…
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…which requires such faithful Believers joyfully and faithfully living by the “exceeding great and precious promises” found throughout Scripture! 2nd Peter 1:4
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Young business people – Cropped Photo – Wikimedia – the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Christian and Apollyon – Pilgrim’s Progress – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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A LUKEWARM CHURCH TODAY
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Unfortunately, while this situation seems to satisfy the social and religious needs of most of today’s churchgoers, it does NOT satisfy the needs of a sin-hating, worldliness-hating God!
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Listen to God’s assessment of today’s Church…
“I know thy works…(because thou art lukewarm)
I will spew thee out of My mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich,
and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing;
and knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable,
and poor,
and blind,
and naked:”
Revelation 3:15-17
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Here is seen that God hates a lukewarm, world-loving, self-satisfied church-society.
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And such a lukewarm condition is nauseating to a God who refers to Himself as, “a consuming fire”. (Hebrews 12:29)
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ABOVE STAR-CHART – Sign of the Son of Man – www.theheavensdeclare.net – Not for commercial uses
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HATING THIS PRESENT, SELFISH WORLD!
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Listen…“whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:33
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This and many other similar Bible passages reveal that God wants nothing to do with those who attempt to have Jesus in one hand, and the world in the other!
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He accepts no divided service.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who offers a world-loving gospel
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“FLAME-OF-FIRE” CHRISTIANS
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No, but rather, God’s “Born-Again On-Fire Believers” will be casting the world behind them “to the moles and to the bats“…
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…as they run the race toward becoming Christ-like in every respect…
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…allowing God to send them through the purifying fires of trials and tribulation, so that they may “come forth as gold“! (Isaiah 2:20 & Job 23:10)
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Picture – Lot Escapes Sodom – www.thebiblerevival.com offers free Bible clipart – Public Domain.
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to fully understand just where we are! Let me not be carried away in a Devilish dream, and begin to seek after the things of this world. But fix my eyes Heaven-ward, as I continue up the pathway to Heaven…
The Christian Martyrs Last Prayer – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Vanity Fair” & The False Prophet…
…or you can also read this shorter article…January 31st (You Can’t Fix Hell!)…
…or you can also read this shorter article…“January 2 (The Gospel According to Pollyanna, Part 1)”
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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THE ‘FIVE FOOLISH VIRGINS’ STARS
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A new constellation has been revealed, as of about May 29th, 2014. This constellation appears as a serpent (snake).
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Its body is comprised of stars from the Bootes Constellation, and its jaws are made of the four stars which Babylonians saw as the head of Draco, the Dragon.
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It also has a small single star for an eye.
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Now in this constellation is a group of five stars, which will be called “The ‘Five Foolish Virgins’ Stars”.
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These are located on the opposite side of the Glorious Crown of 12 Stars (AKA Corona Borealis), from the ‘Five Wise Virgins’ Stars.
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But one big difference between the two is, that The Five Wise are curved around the Glorious Crown, while the Five Foolish are curved away from it!
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… The ‘Five Foolish Virgins’ Stars
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TOMORROW…
May 22 (How Do I See These Signs of Heaven? Part 3: “A Matter of Desire, Or Desire-Not!”)
Starry Night at La Silla – Wikimedia – Share-Alike license
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90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM or BIBLE STUDY
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ALL‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THIS BIBLE STUDY or 90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM, A QUESTION/ANSWER CALL-IN, TALK SHOW.
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN…(71) The Open Forum Harold Camping July 4, 2002 – YouTube
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