A Ready Remnant Part 5
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Stay Awake and Resurrected
Stay Awake and Resurrected
A typical Easter or Passover message is expected in most Christian churches. Easter messages will be preached about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, He is neither dead nor sleeping to be awakened. He is very much alive. Therefore, today, I do not want to focus on His dying nor His exiting the grave. Instead, I want to focus on the fact that this crucified and risen Savior is still alive, awake and coming back soon. And He is coming back for a church that is awake, not culturally drunk, but spiritually ready. When Christ returns neither compromising, complacent, nor culturally complicit Christianity will not be recognized.
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
According to Carl Gallups in his book “The Rabbi, the Secret Message, and the Identity of the Messiah”, we are living in the most Biblical prophetic times since the days of Christ. We are on the other side of Israel becoming a nation, Jerusalem restored as it’s capital, unification of global communication with thought through the internet and artificial intelligence, massive global moral and social depravity, and a new rising hatred of Jews and Christians.
One of the strongest messages I could give to you in these days are the very same words found here in Luke by Yeshua Himself, “Do not let your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkeness and cares of this life.” By dissipation, He means disillusionment or disintegrating of your minds and souls by self-indulgence, sexual perversion, hedonism, and the cares of this world. By drunkeness, He is not just talking about intoxication on liquor or drugs, but becoming drunk on culture, drunk on ideologies, drunk on vanity, drunk on religion, drunk on politics, drunk on agendas, drunk on moral depravity or anything that inebriates your thinking from the mind of Christ. He is talking about anything that clouds your spiritual and moral discernment and draws you away from intimate relationship with Christ Jesus. He is talking about that which lulls you into a false sense of moral and spiritual security through deceptive intoxication. This would include self-deception and self-justification.
Jesus says, “Stay awake at all times.” The word “awake” in Hebrew is ‘ur עוּר implying to open one’s eyes and be alert. At it’s primitive root it means to be exposed. So, what does this speak of in the context of Jesus’ command? Keep your eyes open for His coming but also be alert of the deceptions and enticements all around.most Christians are trying to walk with Jesus with their eyes closed. We cannot live Christ yet be deceived by a lesser form of a “Follower”. Do not hide the mark of Christ on your life. You who are truly followers of the Christ and are marked with the power of His resurrection and the Holy Spirit will be exposed. Therefore, be found standing in faith, unwavering, when the Son of Man returns.
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
We are living again in such days. We have taken the liberty given to us and a nation and a people and abused it to the point of such depravity that drunken and high is a new cultural norm. The convenient killing of our children is the ridding of a nuisance resulting from our sexual immorality. We have perverted marriage, children, and just about everything is driven by self-indulgence. We live in a time when demonic spirits literally boldly walk the earth and engulf what we call modern entertainment. As well, the voice of mockery of the Lord God Almighty grows louder and louder numbing the minds and hearts of generations.
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
The Lord is not asleep. He does not slumber. Stay awake church. Do not be lulled to sleep by the anti-Christ lullabies and lies that fill your eyes and ears and seek to intoxicate your hearts.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
If the Lord Jesus Christ is Master of your dwelling, your home and your hearts, stay awake and let not the enemy, the anti-Christ, the culture that is opposition to His righteousness and holiness, break into your house, your heart, and still away that which you have consecrated unto the Lord God. Let this which was in the hearts of the Early Church also be in you:
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
This fleshly life and all that it holds dear by this world’s measure is worthless rubbish compared to knowing and living Jesus Christ. I don’t know about you, but I want to know the fulness of the power of His resurrection in my life, and not just on Easter or Pasach, but every single moment of every day of my life. Whether my heart is rejoicing or grieving; whether I am facing trials or abundance, I want to know the power of His resurrection in my life. I want to praise Him when I am laughing, grieving, praise Him when I’m young and when I’m old. Praise Him in the morning, praise in the evening, praise Him in every season of my soul. If we could see how much He’s worth, we would never cease to praise Him. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.