Thought for Today: “Rejecting Jesus Results in a Bad Ending”
In Jesus’s parable of the minas, I’m sure that people would like Him to have ended on a positive note. Instead, he ended it with executions for those who rejected his authority and didn’t want him to reign over them.
“But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.” (Luke 19:27)
The reading and interpretation are simple. A fatal end awaits everyone who refuses to acknowledge Jesus as their Savior and Lord. For all those who refuse the rule of Jesus Christ in their lives and who insist on doing it their own way, or oppose what the Bible says, will suffer for all eternity.
Jesus said, “This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:49-50)
There are those today who refuse Jesus’s rule over their lives. Please understand that all attempts to derail the coming reign of Jesus Christ will fail. The coming kingdom of God, the coming reign of Jesus Christ, will supplant every kingdom ever built.
This is why we need to go and share the gospel to the world.
Dennis Lee is Senior Pastor at Living Waters Fellowship, Mesquite, Nevada. He presently has two books, “From Here to There: A Journey to Spiritual Transformation,” and “Wells of Living Waters,” He also writes a religious column for a local newspaper entitled, “Rediscover the Bible for Life,” along with daily devotionals and thoughts that he posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Living Waters Fellowship’s Website
Dennis: MANY years ago, I heard or read that when we die, we will NOT the judgement God has made of US, but will see the choice WE have made for ourselves based on the life WE have lived.
Not sure what we’ll encounter, but this I know, when we believe in Christ we’ll stand before His judgment seat, which in the Greek means reward seat. Thanks and God bless.
Amen! “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!” (Romans 10:14-15). And that is not just the job of the pastors standing at the pulpit; that’s for everyone of us as well. Then the choice is up to the hearers to accept or reject. (Verse 16). The choice may be up to them, but it’s still our calling to share.
Well put Debbie. Thanks