Warning! ‘Coexist’ & ‘Tolerance’ are tools of false teaching, unscriptural paths away from the truth of Jesus Christ as our only Lord and Savior.

Pliable ‘christians’ follow Christ quickly

So many churches full of tradition but not worshipers. So many ‘christians’ full of themselves but not the LORD. Pliable christians are dazzled by the picture of heaven, but are unwilling to sacrifice their sin before the Cross.

Luke 9:

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

²³ And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. ²⁵ For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? ²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. ²⁷ But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

Oh, how we long for the kingdom of God! Heaven, as we may imagine it (as opposed to scriptural description).

2 Corinthians 5:2 New Living Translation (NLT)

² We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing.

Jesus is in fashion again! OR Jesus is out of fashion again. Some had been invited to hear our fresh music at church. A preacher with his hand out promises falsely, you can have your best life now. Then after a while, for some unknown reason, these new christians seem to have disappeared. They were pliable christians who listened for a while and hung out with the church crowd. Jesus was doing something for them on Sundays. What happened to their ‘faith’ in prosperity?

When did they stop coming on Sunday? Where did they go? Maybe they decided another church would be better for them. No one hears from them again.

John 12:25 New Living Translation (NLT)

Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity.

Although the Gospel is Good News to the lost, the truth of the Gospel is bad news for those who reject the cross. Some engage Jesus for a while.

Yet pliable christians follow you or follow a smiling preacher or follow a worship entertainment or follow a guaranteed giving. These are fed hope for this life by doing church for a time. Pliable christians then fall away when asked to deny themselves, rather than to deny Jesus, the Christ of the Living God.

Do you deny yourself to worship the Lord?

Have you suffered at least some verbal abuse because you mention that Jesus is your Lord? Are you ashamed to mention that you worship the Lord every Sunday and have real loving relationships with our fellow souls of your local church?

Everybody wants to get to heaven… just ask anybody. Jesus tells us that heaven is only attainable through Him. Challenge anyone trying to find himself with that one.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. – John 14:6

The scriptures speak of heaven and the Lord Jesus coming down, yet the pliable ones fear public opinion of mortal men over the judgment granted to the Son of Man, Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4

The Coming of the Lord

¹³ But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. ¹⁴ For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵ For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.¹⁷ Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words.

We would all be pliable christians if heaven were so easily attained as to not require Christ’s Cross.

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This is the seventh of my posts, “Follow After Me,” from which we will take a break in preparation of Lent and Easter in the year of our Lord, 2016.

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