Date: Saturday,
August 01, 2015
Chapters: Isaiah
30-34
Message Title: Feel Good Preachers

Hello
My Friend,

Feel good preachers they are called, they
spout amazing messages of hope in a loving God and Father, but fail
to mention the consequences of living in sin, in fact, they do not
mention sin at all. Oh, they mention that you need a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ, and that He died, was buried, and
resurrected for our sins, but fail to mention that the punishment for
sin is death and hell, and that you need to actually ask Him to save
you. Feel good preachers look helpful and caring, but they are only
after one thing, money, and will do anything to get it, even if that
means sending millions of unsaved souls to hell because they rather
them feel good than know the truth. “For
false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and
wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.”
- Mark 13:22.

There are two types of people who fall into
the trap of feel good preachers, the first are those who have been
through so much that they feed off the wonders they provide. The
second are those who want God in their lives and the world also, they
feel that their being saved justifies their actions. Being saved
saves us from ending up in hell for our sins, being saved does not
justify our actions. Through Isaiah, God has something to say to
those who ignore His Word for the sake of their sin.

“Woe
to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but
not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that
they may add sin to sin: Now go, write it before them in a table, and
note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that
will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not;
and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us
smooth things, prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn aside
out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before
us. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise
this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay
thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at
an instant.” - Isaiah 30:1,8-13.

Sin upon sin,
God is not talking to those who walk daily with Christ and just mess
up sometimes, because we are all sinners and a work in progress. God
is talking to those who deliberately defy His commands, using their
salvation as a means to do as they please without suffering any
consequences. God's mercy keeps Him from stripping us of our
salvation for rebelling against Him, it does not keep Him from
placing adversity in our lives to get us to repent. “And
therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and
therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for
the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for
him. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep
no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry;
when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And though the Lord give
you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall
not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes
shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right
hand, and when ye turn to the left.” - Isaiah
30:18-21.

There is no escaping the judgments of God, but
He does protect His children, even if they have gotten away from Him.
The truth is, no amount of good saves us from death and hell, it is
only by our trusting Jesus Christ as our Saviour that we are saved,
but He does help us endure all suffering until Jesus comes to get us.
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to
be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble
knees; And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame
be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.” -
Hebrews 12:11-13.

Trusting God's Word is the key to
trusting God Himself, and not falling into the trap of feel good
preachers. After all Israel went through to be free from Egypt, they
chose their help instead of God's. God reproves them for trusting
them over Him. “Woe to them that go down to
Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because
they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but
they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! Yet
he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his
words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against
the help of them that work iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men, and
not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall
stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is
holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. For thus
hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion
roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth
against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself
for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight
for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.” - Isaiah
31:1-4.

Egypt is a picture of the world, which also
includes worldly churches led by these feel good preachers. Yes, God
will send strangers and all sorts of miraculous things to give us
hope and show His love, but He does not send those who take us away
from the truth, including repentance of sins. Jesus does not just
save us from hell, He saves us from our sins when we trust Him, and
truly have a personal relationship with Him. He literally changes our
lives to remove all the horrible things of our past, yet gives us
hope for the future. “Your glorying is not
good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye
are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with
the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.” - 1 Corinthians 5:6-8.

We
must realize that God truly does love us and is our hope, that hope
includes some chastening from as a just judge. Through Isaiah, we are
reminded of the hope and just judgment that He brings, and will bring
when He reigns as King. “Look upon Zion, the
city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet
habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the
stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords
thereof be broken. But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a
place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with
oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. For the LORD is our
judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save
us.” - Isaiah 33:20-22.

We may fall from Christ,
but Christ never falls from us, He is always there for us when we
call Him. However, if we never do anything the repent of our known
sins, it's going to be a rough life. “If we
say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie,
and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no
sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not
sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” - 1
John 1:6-10.

Today's Prayer:
Jesus, Barely a day goes by that I do not think about where I would
have been if You had not found me in the pit I was in. I was saved,
but I was still lost, and You were the only one who could find me and
set me free from my sins. When life gets hard, and things look bleak
I forget all You have brought me through, and I am sorry for letting
my circumstances control me rather than trust You. Thank You for
loving me and never leaving me, and thank You for having patience
with me to I come to my senses. Lord, lead me and guide me, give me
Your power and strength to serve You, let me be a witness to all You
put on my heart, and help me to keep my eyes on You and not my
circumstances. In Your name Jesus, Amen.

God Bless You, I
am praying for you,
Christina

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