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Do you Know What You Believe?
Every single hour of our life, we are
faced with distractions and interruptions
in this world, which makes it ever so
difficult to stay glued to what is most
important. And as we enter into the last
hours before Christ’s return, we must
push forward and not lose focus.
I Know What I believe
More than ever, we need to know what
we believe and why we believe it.
1. Do you believe it because
someone before you taught you
that way?
2. Do you believe it because God
said it?
One way to find out what you and I
really believe is to ask ourselves this
question: If someone pointed a gun at our
head and asked us to die for each one of
our beliefs—how many [of those beliefs]
would we die for? How many are really
worth fighting over? Pushing on others?
Hanging on to?
The truth is, much of what people believe
and war over now-a-days are only
preferences, or simply traditions passed
on by those before us, or something our
culture has always done. And the truth
again is, when you and I die, those things
will all die with us. They hold no eternal
value. You cannot find them in the Word
of God. They are what they are—
preferences, traditions and cultural.
So, again, what would you die for, if you
had to? Think about it!
Would you die if a Muslim man came up
to you and demanded that you turn your
back on Jesus Christ? Would you die if
the same Muslim man came up to you
and demanded that you stop using your
horse and buggy for transportation?
What I’m trying to get you and the rest of
us to consider in these last days is this:
when persecution comes—and it is
coming quickly—we will need each
other’s support. That means we’ll have
to drop our walls and finger pointing and
start focusing on things we do believe
and are willing to die for.
I Don’t Know What I Believe
It appears that we have many half-
hearted and lukewarm church goers
living all around us today. They come to
church; they dress the dress, talk the talk
and act the act, but they don’t really have
a passion or desire to know God and His
ways.
Does that ever bother you? Does it
bother you to the point that you have laid
awake at night, or found yourself calling
out to God on behalf of someone you
deeply care about?
Consider God’s response to lukewarm
Christians who don’t really believe much
of anything. He says:
I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou
wert cold or hot. So then because
thou art lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, I will spue thee out of my
mouth.
—Revelation 3:15-16
These are people who just go with the
flow. Their idea of Christianity is more
about fitting in; it’s more about fitting in
and being accepted. They’re more
concerned about what men think of them
than they are what God thinks. Consider
what Peter says in 1 Peter 3:15:
...be
ready always to give an answer to every
man that asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and
fear.
—Joe Keim
The End