Weather Warning: A Cold Front is Moving In

There is a cold front moving in to the North East, and Nor'easters are being warned to get read for a snowy Thanksgiving. Did you know that Jesus warned of a cold front in the last days: the love of many will grow cold (Matt. 24:12)? The last letter written to the churches in Revelation 3 is Laodicea, characterized as a lukewarm church.  Today, the number of passionate believers in Jesus is decreasing while lukewarm-ness accelerates to near apostasy.

Do you know that the Bible prophecies a strong delusion (2 Thess. 2:11), like a freezing wind, will numb out everyone (including lukewarm believers) in the last days. And then, when the Holy Spirit is removed from the earth, this freeze will move in and make everyone so cold they no longer feel the love of God. Is this why Jude says, Keep yourselves in the love of God (Jude 21), and Paul, Be on fire with the Spirit (Rom. 12:11)? When you see this cold front moving in, watch your heart. Don't be left out in the cold!

The Danger of Drifting

I still remember many of the hymns I grew up singing in the little Baptist church. One was titled “I've Anchored My Soul in Jesus.” While you may think the old hymns are outdated and irrelevant, allow me to use the title of this hymn to challenge you. Is your soul anchored in Jesus? And what exactly does it mean?

Being anchored in Jesus means being anchored in TRUTH so you won’t DRIFT into false teaching.

Jesus warned that one of the dangers in the end times would be that many will be misled (Matthew 24), or drift away from truth. A drift is not obvious at first. If you have swum in the ocean, you know that the tide carries you far away from the place you originally entered the water.

Calling the backslidden unrepentant Jews back to God, the prophets often used the word RETURN (Is.30:15). RETURN, one of the most common words in the Old Testament, literally means to “go back to the point of departure.” It is natural for any of us to find we have drifted, usually unintentionally, from the truth we once knew and followed. But it can only happen when we are not anchored.

“For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it [truth]…an anchor of the soul…sure and steadfast” (Hebrews 2:11; 6:19).