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A Clarion Call | NO MIDDLE-GROUND!

“He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.” – Jesus Christ (Luke 11:23 (KJV))
Usually, we think that to set ourselves against Jesus or His cause, we have to be involved in something very anti-Christian: like belonging to, or identifying with the Church of Satan, being homosexual or lesbian, blatantly opposing the Gospel or God’s ministers, being proud in sin, belonging to a secret cult etc.
However, Jesus teaches us that it requires very little to set yourself against Him. All you need to be against Him is not to be for Him; not to have the same concerns and passions as He; not to love God and men as He does; not to love what He loves and hate what He hates; not to move in the direction He is moving.
Identifying with Jesus is not in MERE church-going or dressing or talking Jesus. On a particular day, John said to Jesus, “Master, we saw one casting out demons in Your name; and we prevented him, BECAUSE HE DOES NOT FOLLOW US. But Jesus said to him: Do not prevent him, for he who is not against us is for us.” (Luke 9:49-50)
Therefore brethren, let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. Don’t even assume that the testimonies you see in your life is because you are “with” Jesus; for I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them; and the Rock was Christ. NEVERTHELESS, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness (1Cor.12:1-5).
Making such an assumption will be too dangerous for you. Remember that manna kept falling for the Israelites even after God had promised that no one among them above twenty years of age would enter the Promised Land!

Therefore...

Make sure you maintain a close walk with Jesus.
Make sure you are not a disobedient child of God.
Make sure you understand and do what He wants you to do.
When He comes again in glory to judge the living and the dead, Jesus is not going to be a sentimental Judge. He will say to some who have laboured in His Name, “I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.” (See Matt. 7:21-23) We compliment your efforts in climbing the ladder. But we want you to make sure the ladder which you’re climbing is not leaning against the wrong wall.
We wish you the Crown of Life at the end of your Christian race!
Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
Amen.
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