The wedding of the Lamb has come and
His bride has
made herself ready.
- Revelation 19:7
Dear Believer, if the Wedding came today,
are you certain you would be found bride worthy?
Are you as certain as they were?
Have you created your ideal, IDOL Jesus?
“Many will come in my name,
claiming ‘I am he,’ and
will deceive many.”
Does the image you have of Jesus Christ match the image of Jesus Christ in the Bible,
or the “Jesus” of other deceived men who claim, “He is the One”?
“But, I am afraid that just as Eve was DECEIVED by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus OTHER THAN the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.” - 2 Corinthians 11:3-4
You believe in Jesus
and that you are saved by faith, but what if
the “faith” you have and the “Jesus” you believe in
are counterfeits?
“Many Different Jesus’, Different “gospels”, Different “spirits”!
The Bible gives us a dire warning that among believers in Jesus Christ and teachers speaking in His name, there are many different “gospels“, many different “Jesus”, many different “spirits”, and many different “faiths” (Mar 13:6, 2 Cor 11:3-4).
As a result, the apostle Paul commanded that we should “examine our faith” to see if we are in possession of the one and only true and saving faith, or if we have likely, especially in this day, received a counterfeit which will lead us into a dreadful shock when we are suddenly taken from this life and appear before the Judgment Seat of Jesus Christ?
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. - Luke 13:24
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you---unless, of course, you fail the test? - 2 Corinthians 13:5
Can you see why Jesus warned us so clearly by saying:
“Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord’ [they believed in Jesus] will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ Mat 7:21-23
All of these people “believed” in a counterfeit Jesus. They never knew the real Jesus and He never knew them. They all believed and had “faith”, but it was not the precious faith which Peter identified with the true believers in 2 Pet 1:1.
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.' I appointed watchmen over you and said, "Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But you said, 'We will not listen.' - Jeremiah 6:16-17
“Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you,
and you taught in our streets.’
“But he will reply,
‘I don’t know you
or where you come from.
Away from me, all you evildoers!’ - Luke 13:26-27
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ and not do what I say.”
- Luke 6:46
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24 Types of Counterfeit Faith which
cannot save their possessors.
“For 19 years, my faith was the Luke 8:14 counterfeit below!” - Michael Chriswell
Unregenerate faith - John 3:2-3
Money loving faith - Mat 19:22-23
Doubting faith - Jam 1:6
Presumptuous faith - Luke 18:11
Heartless faith - Mat 15:8
Loveless faith - 1 Cor 13:2
World loving faith - 2 Tim 4:10
Demonic faith - Jam 2:19
Counterfeit faith - 2 Cor 11:3-4
Selfish faith - Acts 8:20
Shallow faith - Lk 8:13
Immature faith - Lk 8:14
Carnal faith - 1 Cor 3:1
Disobedient faith - Lk 6:46
Self-righteous faith - Lk 18:11
Hypocritical faith - Tit 1:16
Lukewarm faith - Rev 3:16
Prosperity faith - 1 Tim 6:5
Shrinking back faith - Heb 10:39
Cross less faith - Ph 3:18
Shipwrecked faith - 1 Tim 1:19
Works less faith - Jam 2:14
Fruitless faith - Lk 13:7
Vain faith - Cor 15:2
“Can such a faith save you?”
- James 2:14
The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son….But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless. “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ - Mat 22:2, 11-13
If God was telling the story
of your faith
could He write you into the
book of Hebrews?
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a Very Good
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Turned Me into a Fool
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. - 2 Cor 13:5
Do You Really KNOW God?
10 Questions to help you start to examine your faith to see if you really KNOW God, or just know about Him.
Will Your Faith Get You into the Great Wedding?
“If the chapters of my life story, containing all my desires, words,
actions, character, sufferings, blessings, faith, and my love, do not
increasingly look like they belong in the Bible today, how can
I expect to be written into its final chapter of heaven, tomorrow?”
- Michael Chriswell