In that last days, men will be unthankful to GOD!
What does it mean to be full Gospel versus two-thirds Gospel? GOD is triune: THE FATHER, THE SON, and THE HOLY SPIRIT. How many church services include the teaching and ministry of The Holy Spirit?
In the early church, the ministry of The Holy Spirit was widespread, beginning in Acts chapter 2 and other references were recorded. Paul had to correct the Corinthian church and establish the proper order of the gifts of The Holy Spirit during their assembly. How many churches today allow the gifts of The Holy Spirit to operate within their building?
Let’s refer back to Paul’s warning of what the last days would look like.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Timothy chapter 3:
1 But you need to be aware that in the final days the culture of society will become extremely fierce.
2 People will be self-centered lovers of themselves and obsessed with money. They will boast of great things as they strut around in their arrogant pride and mock all that is right. They will ignore their own families. They will be ungrateful and ungodly.
3 They will become addicted to hateful and malicious slander. Slaves to their desires, they will be ferocious, belligerent haters of what is good and right.
4 With brutal treachery, they will act without restraint, bigoted and wrapped in clouds of their conceit. They will find their delight in the pleasures of this world more than the pleasures of the Loving God.
If you are ungrateful to GOD, you will also be ungodly. Your focus will move away from Holiness and focus on the pleasures of the world.
5 They may pretend to have a respect for God, but in reality, they want nothing to do with God’s power. Stay away from people like these!
They may ask GOD or Jesus to heal someone, but they disregard the Words of Jesus in the Great Commission commanding us to heal the sick by the power of The Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ Name.
6 For they are the ones who worm their way into the hearts of vulnerable women, spending the night with those who are captured by their lusts and steeped in sin.
7 They are always learning but never discover the revelation-knowledge of Truth.
You can get a degree in Religious Studies and become a minister or chaplain, but without The Holy Spirit, you are simply puffed up with knowledge. You have achieved a form of godliness but are denying its power.
How many churches are restricting their services to 25 minutes of “worship”, 5 minutes of activities announcements, and 30 minutes for a short sermon? How many churches teach on Acts chapter 2, 1st Corinthians chapter 12 and 14?
What is the opposite of being thankful? It is murmuring.
In Scripture, “murmuring” is low-voiced complaining, grumbling, or discontent, often directed at God or leaders, and it is condemned as a sin that shows a lack of gratitude and faith. This behavior is seen as a form of rebellion, as demonstrated by the Israelites’ constant complaints against God and Moses in the wilderness. Murmuring is associated with creating discord, undermining authority, and leading to serious consequences, as seen in examples like the destruction of those who murmured against God.
Paul warns us and provides an example as he wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Corinthians chapter 10:
1 My dear fellow believers, you need to understand that all of our Jewish ancestors who walked through a wilderness long ago were under the glory cloud and passed through the waters of the sea on both sides.
2 They were all baptized into the cloud of glory, into the fellowship of Moses, and into the sea.
3 They all ate the same Heavenly manna
4 and drank water from the same Spiritual Rock that traveled with them—and that Rock was Christ Himself.
5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their dead bodies were scattered around the wilderness.
6 Now, all these things serve as types and pictures for us—lessons that teach us not to fail in the same way by callously craving worthless things
7 and practicing idolatry, as some of them did. For it is written: The people settled in to their unrestrained revelry, with feasting and drinking, then they rose up and became wildly out of control!
8 Neither should we commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, which caused the death of twenty-three thousand on a single day.
9 Nor should we ever provoke the Lord, as some of them did by putting Him to outrageous tests that resulted in their death from snakebites day after day.
10 And we must not embrace their ways by complaining—grumbling with discontent, as many of them did, and were killed by the destroyer!
They were murmuring against THE LORD.
11 All the tests they endured on their way through the wilderness are a symbolic picture, an example that provides us with a warning so that we can learn through what they experienced. For we live in a time when the purpose of all the ages past is now completing its goal within us.
12 So beware if you think it could never happen to you, lest your pride becomes your downfall.
We must not disregard the signs of the times and allow ourselves to be satisfied with a watered-down Gospel designed to tickle our ears and make us feel good about ourselves as we do nothing to truly further The Kingdom here on earth.
Let us be continuously thankful to Our Heavenly Father and allow The Holy Spirit to lead us each day.