Believers in Judgment Day

A believer living in a fallen world 

“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour....” 

God’s making Himself known to a believer takes that believer on a committed mission to become progressively closer with God throughout the remainder of their life. Though this might be assumed a clear and simple path, it is not; 

“.....But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.....”  

In looking at the present state of the world, any believer can see that the orientation, language, prospects for prosperity, influencing others, making friends etc, is filled with the cultural norms of profanity, provocation, competition, thievery and all the various cultural and criminal methods of dominating others.  

“.....For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.....”  

These last days of God’s judgment are also the days of technology, where people do not have to actually act out their sin in the world but instead can vicariously act it out in the watching of movies that glorify murder and thievery, a desensitization of the use of language in ethe use of expletives that desensitize by creating  habits of profane expressions. This progressive inner engagement in the behaviors os sin is considered by God to be sin itself in the spiritual realm, which is the realm that believers are being translated towards in this life; Fantasizing about sin is tantamount to the sin;  

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” Matt. 5:28 

Because even believers continue to live in an unresurrected body which is influenced by sin, even they are influenced by the world’s preoccupation with rebelling against God. For without knowing and seeking God, one is unknowingly, or sometimes even knowingly, serving the “prince of the air.” 

“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:” Ephesians 2:2 

“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. 

The fact is that for an unbeliever, to take away the sin manifested in  engagement, in language, arts, social interactions etc., is to take away the “color” of life. It is hard to imagine what life would be like without these provocations and seemingly life enhancing practices. For the unbeliever it is inconceivable that these tools could be done away with because believers are only a small remnant of the population of the world with the rest being driven by Satan’s promises. These worldly unbelievers do not know of the spiritual benefits of salvation because they have not been given the promise of new life in Christ. They have not been given by God His gift of salvation. It is even stressful for the believer to go against the worldly influences that surround them in their families and communities who do not believe precisely because believers, while they live in this world, still live in an unresurrected body whose spirit hates God as much as those who do not know God.  

In fact, the trials and tribulations that take place in the war between  a believer’s resurrected spirit and the spirit of that believer’s flesh is an important part of God’s work in that believer to draw that believer to Himself;  

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” Philippians 2:12 

“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:” Ephesians 4:13 

Ephesians 5:1-8,11,12.