Jesus Will Surprise Some Christians

By James Quansah, Pastor

Christ Jesus came into the world to establish the Church, and He is its Head and Owner. Thus, no apostle, prophet, bishop or archbishop owns a church of God. We are all mere servants called to serve at the Lord’s glorious feet. In case you do not know, Jesus Christ is not dead; He is alive. When He ascended into heaven after His resurrection, He promised to return for all true Christians.

Interestingly, however, when Jesus comes the second time, He will not come as a lamb, humble servant to be insulted, whipped, humiliated, cast down, trodden upon, pierced in both hands and feet, shamefully crowned with thorns, hanged on the tree, made to carry the sins of the world and die in-between two sinners.

Jesus is returning. Oh, yes! You can believe or doubt it; your doubt cannot prevent Him from coming. He is returning with His angelic host with power and majesty to judge the world. He will not sit on the mercy seat; He will sit on the judgment seat to reward everyone according to our deeds (2 Corinthians 5: 10). No one born of a woman will escape this event.

Do you know an interesting thing? Judgment will begin at the church obviously with men of God leading (1 Peter 4: 17). He will justly judge archbishops, bishops, vicar generals, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.

The Lord will judge popes, cardinals, presbyters, moderators, general superintendents and seers. Deacons, deaconesses, catechists, elders, prayer warriors, singers, ushers and other leaders of the church will likely follow the men of God.

Many men of God, who served God deceitfully, will find themselves in the tormenting flames in hell. In her book titled, “Divine Revelation God’s Timely Warning to the Church,” Angelica Zambrano explains how the Lord Jesus gave her the opportunity to experience conditions both in heaven and in hell.

According to Angelica, she did not only find in hell people who sang in churches while they were alive on the earth but also pastors, evangelists, bishops, who preached the gospel, as well as pastors’ wives and many Christians who worshipped God faithlessly.

These days most Christians think they will make it to heaven no matter how they live their lives or indulge in sins. Thousands of believers have been deceived into thinking that once they have their names written in their church books, attend church services, pay tithes, attend funerals and weddings and are known by their pastors, they will automatically go to heaven.

No believer who served the Lord dishonestly would escape His blazing eye on the Judgment Day. On that day, Jesus will not ask about the church you attended; rather He will ask whether you worshipped God in Spirit and in truth. There, it will be revealed those who truly knew God and those who played games with Him.

Christ never promised in His Word that He would spare men of God who would pay huge sums of money to be ordained archbishops, bishops, apostles or reverend ministers. Christ knew that there would be charlatans who would sneak into the church and operate under witchcraft instead of His Holy Spirit to deceive many people.

One day, when Jesus was teaching His disciples, He clearly told them something that is worth meditating upon daily.

He said: “NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME, LORD, LORD will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ONE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and many mighty works in your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness,” (Matthew 7: 21- 23).

Christians have been serving God since the days of Jesus but the King of Kings says NOT EVERYONE who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus did not proclaim that if a pastor sells anointing oil at GH₵1000 or takes GH₵200 as a consultation fee from sick and distressed believers, he will go to heaven.

Jesus did not say that if a man of God manages to wear designer suits and other trendy dresses, owns a mega church, television station, mansions and fleet of cars and makes noise in town, he will enter heaven.

Please, do not get me wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong with owning any of the things aforementioned; they are not sinful. Who will not like to live a life of comfort? But Jesus said unless you do the will of His Father who is in heaven, you will go to hell.

And what is God’s will? It is God’s will for His servants to lose none of the believers He has brought under their care (John 6: 39). It is God’s will for Christians to abstain from sexual immorality. It is God’s will for His ministers to be holy, pure in heart, faithful, loving and heavenly-minded.

“Whoever says he abides in him (Jesus) ought to walk in the same way in which he walked,” (1 John 2: 6). We Christians must learn to convince the world that we truly know Jesus. For the Bible says…as he is so also are we in this world (1 John 4: 17). So if a bishop or a Christian does not have the attitude of Christ, then he does not know Him and is therefore a stranger.