A worldly, self-centered attitude will take you to hell.
No one with a worldly, self-centered attitude will enter the kingdom of heaven
No one with a worldly, self-centered attitude will be raptured.
It is possible God’s called, chosen and faithful people will be removed from the earth to be with Jesus this year. So what must you do to ensure you will be taken to be with Jesus?
You must change. I must change.
It is written, Ro 12:2-AND BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD:
BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED
BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND,
THAT YE MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD, AND ACCEPTABLE, AND PERFECT, WILL OF GOD.
Note God is trying to speak to your “hard of hearing” ears.
1-YOU must change, so you are no longer a worldly, self-centered person. You must no longer be conformed to this world. If you will not change, you will certainly suffer torment for ever and ever and will surely regret your own stubbornness, as you are crying and gnashing your teeth forever and ever.
No self-centered, “I want my way” person shall be with Jesus.
2-You must be transformed. You must change from the way you are. If you will not allow God’s Word and the Holy Spirit to change you, you will regret it forever and ever, perhaps as soon as next year.
The Bible warns you most severly-don’t take God’s Word lightly. Take heed the Bible tells you. In other words, quit playing games regarding your relationship with Jesus. Change your attitude and thinking right now, with God’s help.
That transformatrion must take place in your thinking. Your mind must be reprogrammed. Your thoughts must be renewed. If you will not allow God’s Word to work within you, you will regret it forever and ever. You must put on love. You must remove inside yourself all self-centeredness. You must stop living for the “now” and start preparing for what may be coming in less than a year—the Rapture. Note, I did not say it will come next year, but it is very possible.
The spiritually ignorant person, the fool, the foolish, the stubborn person does not prepare to meet God. It is written, IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THT HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD-Heb 10:31.
A person that murmurs will forever dwell in horrible torment.
A complaining person will for ever and ever be crying. There is no peace from the torment, ever, in the lake of fire.
An accusing person will forever dwell with screaming and pain.
What we call copping an attitude—such people should not expect to be raptured. “A copping an attitude” kind of person is a very self-centered person that many people do not want to be around. Who wants to be around a sarcastic, complaining person all the time?
The Bible commands all of us to REPENT. We are under command from God to repent of murmuring and complaining. We are to repent of accusing the brethren. We are to repent of copping an attitude. We need to change our thinking with His help. Your thoughts need to be on love and Jesus, not on yourself. And if you moan and complain because you are in pain now, think again of the pain you will be in for eternity, if you are cast into the lake of fire.
Note the Scriptures.
Matt 7:21-23-Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
MANY will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED IN THY NAME? AND IN THY NAME HAVE CAST OUT DEVILS? AND IN THY NAME DONE MANY WONDERFUL WORKS?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Many will say HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED IN THY NAME?
Many will say have we not CAST OUT DEVILS in God’s name?
Many will say have we not DONE MANY WONDERFUL WORKS in God’s name?
These were saved people. These were people that were positive they were saved. They served God. Why then didn’t they go to heaven? Why didn’t they get raptured? It was because they did not depart from sin. Many undoubtedly continued to murmur, complain, accuse. They copped an unloving, ungodly attitude and never confessed these things as sin and repented.
Mt 25:6-12-And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for OUR LAMPS ARE GONE OUT.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and THEY THAT WERE READY went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other VIRGINS, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
These were Christians. God calls them virgins, but their lamps went out. These understood, as the time of the end came, that the Rapture was about to happen. They understood how to be saved. They understood these were the latter days. These are a rare group. Yet even though they knew all these things (of which many people do not), they were not raptured. Why? They were not ready to meet Jesus. They were self centered and wanted their own way. They obviously read and studied the Bible, but they lacked one thing—they did not allow God to change them from the inside out. They did not allow God to do His work within them. They did not allow themselves to be transformed to be like Jesus. They refused to continually repent, so they could be conformed to the image of Christ.
Lk 13:23-28-Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
24 Strive (or work at, or try hard) to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Again, these were what appeared to be Christians, but they were left behind. Why? They never forsook all sin. Many were undoubtedly self-centered. They wanted to live in fun and pleasure. They accused and murmured and complained. They did not love as Christ loved. They may have been short-fused. They nursed anger within, not love. If things didn’t go their way, they got angry. They would not let God make them a new, “conformed to the image of Jesus” kind of person.
Right now, if there was a big fire going on outside, would you jump into it? Of course, not. That would be foolish. If that would be foolish, then why are you preparing to jump into the eternal lake of fire, by refusing to change and be conformed to Jesus?
Are you so blind that you think you will escape the damnation of hell simply because you attend a born again church and serve God? You must change on the inside. As Jesus came to give His life for you, so you must also give your life for Him. You must, I said you must, change and stop being self-centered.
The Bible commands you to deny yourself. A self-centered, accusing, “I want my way” kind of person should not expect to be raptured.
Do you get upset when you don’t get your own way? If you do, you surely have not repented as the Bible commands. You are to hate every evil way, and self-centeredness and “I want my own way” is sinful and wicked in the eyes of a Holy God. Your attitude should be—TO LIVE IS CHRIST. Phil 1:21-FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN. Who is the center of your life? Is it Christ, or is it YOU? Is your attitude—THY will be done, or is it—MY will be done?
Try to understand how narrow the gate is to enter heaven, and how you have little chance to be with Jesus unless you repent daily and allow God to change you from within. Understand how few shall be raptured. Have you not read:
1 Pe 4:18-AND IF THE RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED, WHERE SHALL THE UNGODLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR?
Murmuring is sin.
Complaining is sin.
Accusing is sin.
Self-centeredness is sin.
Living for self-pleasure is sin.
An “I want my way” attitude is sin.
Copping an attitude is sin.
Not having a loving attitude is sin.
Living for yourself is sin.
Striving to have your own way is sin.
If you do these things, you are a very sinful person in the eyes of the living God.
You should do the works of God with joy in your heart and never with a lousy attitude. For that is sin.
And when you do these wicked things in the eyes of the Holy God, do you afterward fall down on your knees and confess it as sin and ask for God’s forgiveness?
Have you not read, IF WE CONFESS OUR SIN, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SIN?
You sin, but don’t even admit you sin. Then you sin more by not confessing and forsaking it. Thus, how can you be forgiven? FOR God says, IF YOU CONFESS YOU SIN…He will forgive you.
So you murmur, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You complain about all sorts of things, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You accuse others, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You are very self-centered and want you own way, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You live for pleasure to please your lustful sinful nature, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You want your own way rather than God’s way, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You cop an attitude when things are not just the way you want them to be, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You often do not have a loving attitude with the brethren as Jesus did, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
You live to please your own flesh, and do not confess it as sin and forsake it.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and this includes you.
And when this exhortation is finished, will you privately fall down on your knees and confess all this wickedness you have done and repent? Will you change-probably not. Will you perish for eternity and live forever and ever wishing you have obeyed this message of correction?
So you continue to lay sin upon sin. Your ungodly attitude continues, and you just will not change. And when you die, which may be sooner than you want, you will have eternity to think about this message and how you could have repented, but you would not confess and forsake your way of living and thinking. When you die—the way you are inside will remain with you for eternity. For it is written:
Rev 22:11-14-HE THAT IS UNJUST, LET HIM BE UNJUST STILL: AND HE WHICH IS FILTHY, LET HIM BE FILTHY STILL: The kind of attitude you have when you die and perish is the same attitude you will have as you are tormented day and night, forever and ever.
Rev 22:17-And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Rev 22:20-He which testifieth these things saith, Surely, I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:11-14-AND HE THAT IS RIGHTEOUS, LET HIM BE RIGHTEOUS STILL: AND HE THAT IS HOLY, LET HIM BE HOLY STILL.
AND, BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY; AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO GIVE EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE.
I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LAST.
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER IN THROUGH THE GATES INTO THE CITY.