Being Saved and The End Times

[Bryony]

hi there how is everyone?

I've posted on here before but just thought I'd come back and say I have read Lee Strobel's book The Case For Christ and I can now say I believe the New Testament. I am ready to be saved but due to demonic attacks which are apart of my childhood history involving satanic parents, the demons keep reminding me of judgement and I keep calling God and the Holy Spirit cuss words. I keep believing God is angry at me though I feel his presence and its one of unconditional love. I cried a bit when I read in that book about how Jesus endured the beatings before the cross and the cross itself and it was pretty gruesome. I haven't yet repented but I believe in my heart that Jesus is God and the resurrection and cross but I still need to take just a little leap of faith to believe he died for me. I believe but I need help with my unbelief. I am concerned its the end times and I just wondered what advice what you give me? First of all I'm anxious and worried for most of the day which means I don't have trust in God to have faith in my prayers because I believe his judgement may fall upon me at any moment. I'm ready to give my heart to Jesus but I yet don't feel repentant and I keep thinking about sin and getting angry which I'm sure is demonic because I feel like God is just in some ways but not in others. I've been battling with night paralyzation and demonic attacks for months now but thankfully by the grace of God I haven't experienced it in a while. I am thankful for Jesus holding onto me and the Holy Spirit opening my eyes in that book. But I can't strive towards salvation which makes me wonder. Do I still read my Bible and what do I do from here and further study? Can you give advice to someone who's panicking about the end times?

 

[Br4nd0n]

Hi bryony, im doing ok

So cool, i have that same book by lee stroble but i havent read it yet

The way i see it, even if fire doesnt rain down from heaven tmrw, every human on earth is in their own personal "end times" simply because we may go at any given moment. So its great that Gods taken you this far for sure, read your Bible, learn the cultural context of it. Pray to God daily, devote your life to Him and see the awesome ways He will continue to change your heart by His loving mercy.

If you focus on the global disasters, then it distracts you from God himself. God told abraham in genesis 15 that He Himself was abes "exceedingly great reward."

 

[Who Me]

I believe but I need help with my unbelief. I am concerned its the end times and I just wondered what advice what you give me?

The best advice I can give you is to contact either Chichester Baptist Church or St Pancreas Church, both in Chichester and start attending one of these churches EVERY week and to talk with the minister.
You are frighten, rightly about the 2nd coming, well get your finger out, is Christianity true?
If it is believe it.
Sitting on the fence as an enemy of God gets you nowhere, come down and follow Jesus.
Abrupt and brutal, yes, you know how to escape he'll so pursue it.

 

[daninthelionsden]

hi there how is everyone?

I've posted on here before but just thought I'd come back and say I have read Lee Strobel's book The Case For Christ and I can now say I believe the New Testament. I am ready to be saved but due to demonic attacks which are apart of my childhood history involving satanic parents, the demons keep reminding me of judgement and I keep calling God and the Holy Spirit cuss words. I keep believing God is angry at me though I feel his presence and its one of unconditional love. I cried a bit when I read in that book about how Jesus endured the beatings before the cross and the cross itself and it was pretty gruesome. I haven't yet repented but I believe in my heart that Jesus is God and the resurrection and cross but I still need to take just a little leap of faith to believe he died for me. I believe but I need help with my unbelief. I am concerned its the end times and I just wondered what advice what you give me? First of all I'm anxious and worried for most of the day which means I don't have trust in God to have faith in my prayers because I believe his judgement may fall upon me at any moment. I'm ready to give my heart to Jesus but I yet don't feel repentant and I keep thinking about sin and getting angry which I'm sure is demonic because I feel like God is just in some ways but not in others. I've been battling with night paralyzation and demonic attacks for months now but thankfully by the grace of God I haven't experienced it in a while. I am thankful for Jesus holding onto me and the Holy Spirit opening my eyes in that book. But I can't strive towards salvation which makes me wonder. Do I still read my Bible and what do I do from here and further study? Can you give advice to someone who's panicking about the end times?

I believe there is little to no time to waste. It's time to make a decision for life or death. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom( so He tells us). We, trying to judge Him, are like a germ trying to judge a Blue Whale. We are so infinitely inadequate to judge the Creator of all things by our puny standards.
Humility and repentance are key to approaching Him. He has no use for pride. He has all reason to be prideful against us yet He humbled Himself to ridicule and humiliation to pay the ultimate price for you and me and anyone who will pause their will, pause their way and turn to Him then say " My Lord And My God" "I repent of my ways. Please show me Your ways as I accept who You are and what You did for all of us who deserve destruction".

 

[Carry_Your_Name]

I believe there is little to no time to waste. It's time to make a decision for life or death. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom( so He tells us). We, trying to judge Him, are like a germ trying to judge a Blue Whale. We are so infinitely inadequate to judge the Creator of all things by our puny standards.
Humility and repentance are key to approaching Him. He has no use for pride. He has all reason to be prideful against us yet He humbled Himself to ridicule and humiliation to pay the ultimate price for you and me and anyone who will pause their will, pause their way and turn to Him then say " My Lord And My God" "I repent of my ways. Please show me Your ways as I accept who You are and what You did for all of us who deserve destruction".

Yes, we all need a sense of urgency, live everyday as though this is your last day. You've heard it all the time that WWIII is near, second coming could be in 2030, you could dismiss it with Matt. 24:36 (No one knows the day or the hour) and pretend that everything is fine, that's not my attitude, what I've heard is the ticking clock of the end times and the galloping hooves of the four horsemen, I feel that I'm under an invisible pressure to get parepared, materially and spiritually.

 

[Tenchi]

hi there how is everyone?

All right, thanks.

I am ready to be saved but due to demonic attacks which are apart of my childhood history involving satanic parents, the demons keep reminding me of judgement and I keep calling God and the Holy Spirit cuss words.

And so? What does what they do have to do with what you do? Demons are never going to praise God. But this doesn't mean you can't. Your mind is your mind, not theirs. Give God control over your thinking, submit yourself to Him all throughout each day, and He will move you away from the clamor of demonic voices into the peace, love and joy that He is. God won't force this to happen, though. He'll only take control of you as you consciously give it to Him.

I keep believing God is angry at me though I feel his presence and its one of unconditional love.

And so? Are your feelings going to continue to lead you about, up and down, and all over the map? Or will you begin to stand by faith on what God has said and not be moved from it no matter what you feel or experience? Only as you do will you begin to experience His truth in your life. In God's kingdom, seeing is not believing; you must believe before you see.

I haven't yet repented but I believe in my heart that Jesus is God and the resurrection and cross but I still need to take just a little leap of faith to believe he died for me.

That you have come to believe the things you do about Jesus is repentance. Changing your mind, your thinking, your beliefs, about something is repentance. Throwing off wrong beliefs and taking up new, true ones is what repentance means.

Why won't you trust that Jesus died for your sins and yield to him as your Lord?

I am concerned its the end times and I just wondered what advice what you give me? First of all I'm anxious and worried for most of the day which means I don't have trust in God to have faith in my prayers because I believe his judgement may fall upon me at any moment.

Why are you so willing to believe in God's judgment but not in His great love for you? Jesus died for you precisely so you would never have to fear God's wrathful judgment! You don't have to be anxious all day about the End Times when you have trusted in Christ as your Savior and Lord and thus stepped into God's eternal, unfailing love (and His love has stepped into you).

1 John 4:16-19
16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
19 We love because he first loved us.

Romans 10:9-10
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Revelation 3:20
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I'm ready to give my heart to Jesus but I yet don't feel repentant and I keep thinking about sin and getting angry which I'm sure is demonic because I feel like God is just in some ways but not in others.

Repentance isn't a feeling but a thing of the mind, a recognition that a thing is true and believing it. Doing so, changing your mind about something, might lead to certain feelings, but repentance comes before those feelings. You can repent - change your mind - and not have any feelings at all. What matters is what your change of thinking leads you to do. Real repentance changes your behavior, first of all, not necessarily your feelings.

Imagine a guy who has a sore tooth. He doesn't want to go to the dentist to have it fixed. The dentist will stick needles into his gums, and grind away at his tooth with a drill, filling his mouth with slobber, and tooth bits and dental equipment. And then the guy will have to pay a huge amount of money for his tooth repair. But the guy's tooth really hurts and the pain is getting worse and worse! Finally, the guy recognizes that if he doesn't go to the dentist, his pain will be unbearable. Even though he hates the idea of visiting the dentist, he understands - not feels - that he must go and get his tooth repaired. And so understanding this, believing it - repenting of his belief that he could just not go to the dentist - the guy with the sore tooth gets his tooth fixed.

People do this all the time. They repent of things often, changing their minds about what they think, about what they believe, acting in ways that have nothing to do with what they want to do but with what makes sense, with what they understand is the reasonable thing to do. And so, people go to work when they'd rather stay in bed; they take the dog for a walk when they'd rather be warm and comfortable at home watching t.v.; they trust in Christ as their Savior and Lord even when they don't have strong feelings for him.

As in every relationship that we work to develop, feelings of affection, of love, grow over time. Every friendship is like this, as investment in the relationship builds and positive experiences with the other person grow in number, one's desire to know and relate with the other person - one's love for them - also grows. It's unreasonable to expect a deep love for a person before you have invested in a relationship with him/her. A lot of people think like this, though, about Jesus. They think they have to have strong feelings about him before they trust in him as their Savior and Lord. When they do, they tell themselves, then they'll fully repent of their godless living and walk with God. But being saved isn't about strong feelings but about what's reasonable, what makes good sense. And nothing makes better sense, nothing is more reasonable, than for the creature to trust in the love and rule of its Creator.

But I can't strive towards salvation which makes me wonder. Do I still read my Bible and what do I do from here and further study? Can you give advice to someone who's panicking about the end times?

How can you strive for something that is given to you as a gift? Salvation is the gift of God to people who are too weak to help themselves. You just take it, by faith, as your own.

Ephesians 2:8
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

All who have received God's love offered to them in Jesus, all who have trusted in Jesus as their Savior and Lord, have nothing to fear from the End Times, which is God's judgment poured out on the unrepentant wicked.

 

[Josef]

Hey All,
Bryony, I want you to read the Scriptures and I will comment below them.

Luke 12:5-9 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

The person to fear is Satan. He is the one keeping you in a state of anxiety and worry. Why? He i trying to keep you from Jesus.

"Your mind is your mind, not theirs."
Quote from Tench

Did you read the rest of Tenchi's post? To repeat what he said, salvation is a gift. Why do you have to struggle to receive a gift? (Romans 6:23) You say you know and believe:

"I believe in my heart that Jesus is God and the resurrection and cross but I still need to take just a little leap of faith to believe he died for me." Quote from Bryony

What do you believe Jesus became human to do on earth? He is God. The only thing He couldn't do in heaven, is die for our sins in. He had to take on our humanity to do that. You know He did.

If you truly are ready, forget the fears and focus on Jesus, whom you already say you believe in.

Say the following with me.
Jesus, I know know I am a sinner.
I want to repent of my sins, please forgive me.
Please may I receive your gift of eternal life?
I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

That simple prayer just changed your life. You are officially a believer. Congratulations and you get a big old hug from me.

Your next step is to find a good church (as Who Me has said) and be baptized. (This is the confession before men part.) That will change your life as well.

One last thing: You, as a believer, now have a new ally, the Holy Spirit, to help you fight the anxiety and worry. You will find that the attacks will not affect you in the same way. When Satan calls me a sinner, guess what? I know I am. But I also know I am a forgiven sinner saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus. So the attacks have no affect on me. You see what I mean? It's life-changing.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz

 

[miamited]

Hi Bryony

I haven't yet repented but I believe in my heart that Jesus is God and the resurrection and cross but I still need to take just a little leap of faith to believe he died for me.

So, who do you think that Jesus died for?

God bless
Ted

 

[miamited]

Hi again Bryony

Can you give advice to someone who's panicking about the end times?

While discussions on exactly how we will see the events of the very last of these days come, we needn't worry ourselves about their coming. They are going to come and they are going to come exactly on God's timing, as they always were established. It's really not something to worry about, but for believers, to rejoice about. Our salvation draws nigh and Jesus will soon return. Praise God.

So, while we all have questions concerning the exact 'how' and 'when' of the days leading up to God's judgment and wrath, we are to continue to live as we always should be living, as God's children. Love Him and trust Him in all things. Know that nothing will come to you that hasn't been fully known to come to you with the allowance of God. And He knows what you can endure. In your heart, establish Jesus as Lord and tell others about the pearl of great price that you have found. That there is salvation for our souls from the sin and degradation and slop of this life. That God loves us so much that He sent His one and only Son to give his life as a ransom for ours. Praise God!!

But one day, you will have to own up to the issue of your sin, for the good of your own heart. And because God, through His word has asked us to. Repent.

God bless,
Ted

 

[port4]

hi there how is everyone?

I've posted on here before but just thought I'd come back and say I have read Lee Strobel's book The Case For Christ and I can now say I believe the New Testament. I am ready to be saved but due to demonic attacks which are apart of my childhood history involving satanic parents, the demons keep reminding me of judgement and I keep calling God and the Holy Spirit cuss words. I keep believing God is angry at me though I feel his presence and its one of unconditional love. I cried a bit when I read in that book about how Jesus endured the beatings before the cross and the cross itself and it was pretty gruesome. I haven't yet repented but I believe in my heart that Jesus is God and the resurrection and cross but I still need to take just a little leap of faith to believe he died for me. I believe but I need help with my unbelief. I am concerned its the end times and I just wondered what advice what you give me? First of all I'm anxious and worried for most of the day which means I don't have trust in God to have faith in my prayers because I believe his judgement may fall upon me at any moment. I'm ready to give my heart to Jesus but I yet don't feel repentant and I keep thinking about sin and getting angry which I'm sure is demonic because I feel like God is just in some ways but not in others. I've been battling with night paralyzation and demonic attacks for months now but thankfully by the grace of God I haven't experienced it in a while. I am thankful for Jesus holding onto me and the Holy Spirit opening my eyes in that book. But I can't strive towards salvation which makes me wonder. Do I still read my Bible and what do I do from here and further study? Can you give advice to someone who's panicking about the end times?

Hi Bryony. The only answer I have as a Christian is to go to church whether you feel like it or not. Feelings come and go but God is forever. Talk to a pastor. Receive Christ and be saved. Get baptized. Read your Bible every day. One chapter at a time and use commentaries to help you understand the Bible and therefore, know God, know Jesus Christ, know the Holy Spirit. You must be saved by the grace of God through faith. You can only get that through the Word of
God which is the Bible. Then, we have the power of the Holy Spirit to renounce Satan's attacks. God Bless!