Matthew 25 King James Version (KJV)

Matthew 25 King James Version (KJV)

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Come on guys, let's be real now. There are people in the kingdom of God who think they can deal unjustly with some of God's children and be found innocent. Oh of course those who do these things have 'good' reasons for what they do, and they don't even believe they do it. Judas had no clue that he was 'betraying' Jesus either. He had other ideas about what he was doing, until it was too late. Those reasons are 'good' in the eyes of those who are deluded. These folks should heed the proverb that says, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man [or woman], but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov. 14:12). Let me assure you as a tried, proven, and documented [in heaven] servant of the living God; that if you are found adding to the pain of any of God's hurting children, for whatever your misguided 'good' reasons are; you can plan on inheriting the fate of those whom Jesus spoke to in the above passage, except you repent. If your conscience brings you into question, I would strongly advise listening to it and heeding it's counsel. You can sweep something under the rug for as long as you like, but rest assured that God is going to pull that rug up and expose what is under it. This Gospel is not some kind of a social game where you can just kind of do whatever feels good to you, regardless of how it affects someone else. People are going to be judged according to how they treated other people, as Jesus clearly showed in the above passage. The even more sobering reality of the Gospel is that once you are baptized with the Spirit into Christ, you are going to be either a wise or foolish virgin (I Cor. 12:13; Mat. 25:1-12). Once you are in Christ you will either be a wheat or a tare (Mat. 13:24-30). All ten of those virgins, wise and foolish alike, continued in the journey to meet the bridegroom; but the foolish were lost (Mat. 25:11,12).

The wheat and the tares grew up together until the harvest, but in the end the tares were thrown in a furnace of fire (Mat. 13:30; 40-42). In the parable of the vine and the branches, the branches that did not bare good fruit were burned up as well (Jn. 15:1-6). All of the branches, fruitful and unfruitful, were in the vine; which vine is Christ, as Jesus said in the parable. And understand that there ARE going to be foolish virgins, and they are children of God until they make themselves children of the devil. There ARE tares, and those tares are children of God until they are cast out of the kingdom of God, as the parable clearly shows (Mat. 13:41,42). Many of God's people have been taught erroneously to think that the unrighteous people in parables like that are just the unconverted 'world.' Nothing could be further from the truth, and nothing could be more damaging to God's people than to think everyone who is found at fault in the end is just those who have never been born again. If that isn't lukewarm teaching, then there is no such thing as lukewarmness. But there is such a thing as being lukewarm, and there is also such a thing as God hating it, and Jesus rebuked a man who was in a high position in the kingdom of God for having that condition (Rev. 3:15,16). I personally am not going to spare anybody and then have their blood on my hands when I get to the end (Ezek. 3:18). No way. Hate me, avoid me, slander me, block me, or whatever you like; I've been there and done that many times over, and I stand pure in heart before God today. Not only so, but I won't be changing that status for anybody's sake. As far as my slightly aggressive tone in this post, please don't take it personally unless it applies to you personally. In that case take it very personally, even unto contrite repentance. I sometimes just get plum sick to my spirit of seeing some of the stuff that people do to other people, while at the same time being quite the crusader for Christ. It ain't gonna wash folks, and it don't wash now unless it's repented of. Amen.