Is The Scripture A Warning?

Chapter 6

Day 5

              In chapter three we talked about the “Warnings of the End Times.” As important as these warnings are, they are not as important as some of the other warnings. In this lesson we are going to talk about and learn to recognize some of these other warnings.

Warnings To The Wicked: Who are the wicked? In today’s society most people believe they were the unsaved of the time who cheated their neighbors. There was no such thing as an unsaved person in the Jewish community. Every person belonged to the nation of Israel and the entire nation was God’s Chosen People. The wicked, whom Aspah was talking about in this scripture (Psalm 50:16-17) were the Hypocrites. Adam Clark describes them as the bloodthirsty priests, Pharisees, and ignorant scribes among the Jewish people. These were people who worshiped among the righteous people and pretended to love God but hated His instruction and refused to live the way God instructed them.

The wicked of today are the heretic preachers who deceive their congregations and tell them what they want to hear so they will give them more money, Christians who think they can live in sin all day then go home at night and ask God to forgive them and everything will be ok, teachers and Theologians who try to deceive the Christian community with their writings and teachings (Matthew 11:16-30; 3 John).

There are over 300 scriptures that warn of the punishment of the wicked.

Warnings about Prayer: One of the most quoted verses of scripture about prayer is 1 John 1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. People like this verse because it assures them that if they stumble occasionally their sins will be forgiven. This verse does come with a warning. The words “and just” were put there for a reason. Most people tend to read over them and pay them no heed. Well, you can’t do that. Jesus tells us if we want our sins forgiven we must first forgive the sins of others (Matthew 6: 14, 15). There are over 80 scriptures that tell us God does not hear a sinners prayer (John 9: 31). You will also see a warning in that verse. It states “He listens to the godly man who does His will.” If you look up every verse of scripture concerning prayer, you will find there is a condition (warning) attached to each of them.

Warnings About Salvation: There are many myths about salvation. Some believe you must clean up your life before you can receive salvation, some believe you must physically seek out those you have sinned against and ask for their forgiveness and there are many others. Salvation comes only through belief in Jesus Christ (John 3:16). However, there are conditions for keeping salvation that most preachers ignore and never tell you about.

Jesus stated that if we loved Him, we would keep his commandments (John 14:23-27). This doesn’t mean we can keep only the commandments that are convenient for us, nor does it mean we can keep the commandments part time. We must keep the commandments all day every day.

In Paul’s writings we see several conditions of salvations (Romans 6: 1-6). Paul states we must put off the old man and put on the new man (Colossians 3:1-17). Paul also stated in (1 Thess 5:1-11) his letter to the Thessalonians that we must be awake and alert at all times because of the second coming of Jesus.

There are many other warnings concerning salvation in the Old and New Testaments we need to read and be aware of. The strongest of these are contained in Hebrews 10:1-18.

Daily Bible Readings:

Read Hebrews 10