DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE TRANSFORMED?
By Dr. Josimar Salum
The following paragraph is a summary of a text posted in the Whasapp mentoring group called Transforming! It is about four things that are common in the teachings of many Christians:
"The rapture is soon! Let's not continue adjusting according to the world because we love it. Let's jump out of that water before Jesus comes back. He is coming soon. God has a place for us..."
1) The rapture: the secret event of the disappearance of millions and millions of believers in the world.
2) He is coming BACK. Jesus will be back on Earth.
3) Escape: let us get out of this world. Things here are getting nasty and horrible.
4) God has a place for us. There is a mansion waiting for us in heaven.
These beliefs are repeated over and over again.
1) Have you honestly studied by yourself these matters in the Scriptures?
2) Where do these beliefs come from?
3) The idea of alerting believers that way does it reflect who Jesus is and your resemblance with Him?
4) What the Scriptures truthfully teach about the Coming of Jesus?
Let us be very clear. This is how I do believe:
1) We ought to live a holy life.
2) We must preach the Gospel of the Kingdom to the ends of the world.
3) We must make disciples of all nations.
4) Yes, Jesus is coming.
Are you ready to be challenged in your beliefs? Are you ready for a victorious, true and biblical version of the coming of Jesus?
I ask these questions humbly, because what our brother explained in his text are pillars of beliefs that are considered sacred all over the Christian world! And we must examine them in the light of the Bible alone and not according to Christian teachings and traditions.
As he voluntarily posted a teaching in the group let us examine them in the light of Scriptures!
Our conversations are going to a new level! Are you ready? Are you ready for the Gospel of the Kingdom? Are you ready for a journey of biblical examination without prejudice?
After you read this post please read the following:
If you do not read all posts you can get confused and not understand what is really going on here.
Please read the posts. Ask questions! Don't be offended if you are challenged in your beliefs. Jesus is the Truth. We are following HIM! So we are on the same path!
What is the main implication in your life about having to check it out if all your beliefs are really reflecting the Truth?
Are your Christian beliefs really taught by Jesus?
We talk about transformation! We want to be transformed! Is not that so? Do you really mean it?
I have close friends that say they want to be challenged and be transformed until they are strongly challenged! They get very irritated about change! I myself sometimes get upset when I face the revelation of Jesus Christ and find out I have set my beliefs in something else and not upon the Rock of Ages!
I will really understand if you, somehow, want to jump out of this group. It has happened before!
“When His disciples heard this, many of them said, This is a hard and difficult and strange saying (an offensive and unbearable message).
Who can stand to hear it? [Who can be expected to listen to such teaching?]
But Jesus, knowing within Himself that His disciples were complaining and protesting and grumbling about it, said to them: Is this a stumbling block and an offense to you?
[Does this upset and displease and shock and scandalize you?] What then [will be your reaction] if you should see the Son of Man ascending to [the place] where He was before? It is the Spirit Who gives life [He is the Life-giver]; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever [there is no profit in it].
The words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are spirit and life. But [still] some of you fail to believe and trust and have faith. For Jesus knew from the first who did not believe and had no faith and who would betray Him and be false to Him. And He said,
This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted him [unless he is enabled to do so] by the Father. After this, many of His disciples drew back (returned to their old associations) and no longer accompanied Him.
Jesus said to the Twelve, Will you also go away? [And do you too desire to leave Me?]
Simon Peter answered, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words (the message) of eternal life. And we have learned to believe and trust, and [more] we have come to know [surely] that You are the Holy One of God, the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of the living God.
Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And [yet] one of you is a devil (of the evil one and a false accuser). He was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for he was about to betray Him, [although] he was one of the Twelve.” John 6:60-71 AMP
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