So that was a good segue to talk more about those who will be counted worthy to escape the coming wrath.
2 Timothy 2 clearly describes 2 different kinds of vessels in God’s family. Both saved, sealed unto God for all eternity.
One group is saved and a vessel of dishonor. These are the lukewarm, the double minded. They are those waffling back and forth from the old man and the new. They are the saved but distracted…still self ruled.
The second group is saved and a vessel of honor. They are sanctified and fit to bear fruit for the kingdom of God. They escape the wrath to come. They are about their Fathers business and are not distracted. They are God-ruled and not self-ruled. They are single minded and will be raptured before God’s wrath is unleashed to purify the vessels of dishonor who will not escape the wrath, and destroy the unsaved…those who rejected totally God’s offer of salvation.
The second group…the group who were vessels of honor, who God was able to use for His work, and were fruit bearers while they awaited His return…watched, waited, prayed, expected, and kept themselves from evil.
So salvation alone will not ensure us that we escape the wrath. Salvation and fullness in Christ will ensure that we will.
So many parables warn us not to be caught unaware. Not to be lazy. Not to be careless and unfruitful.
If we are these things, God will toss us into the tribulation to refine us because we refused to do it while we were alive, and before the rapture.
Oh that the church would be taught these truths accurately today! Yet I haven’t heard it anywhere.
Chuck Missler taught this to the rejection of many friends. But he was right.
Oh, that the church would watch and pray and keep themselves from evil so that they would be counted worthy to escape this coming wrath.
Amen.