The Church in Crisis (Part 2)

“Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour which ye think not.” Luke 12:40. His second coming should prompt us to be ready. The question is, “What are we to do to be ready?”

Luke 12:35, “Let your loins be girded about” ...with what? “Truth… the armour of righteousness (right thinking) on the right hand and on the left,” II Corinthians 6:7. “And your lights burning,” What lights? The Light that has come into the world. John 1-:1-12, “Christ was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” The light of life, the light of truth that sets one free is the truth about the character of God. The fruit of the Spirit becomes ours as His true children by the working of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling.  To manifest to the world in darkness that light of life.

In 2 Corinthians 4:6, the apostle Paul states; “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our heart, to give the light of knowledge of the glory of God, (His true character) in the face of Jesus Christ.”

In Ephesians 5:7-14, he also states, “Be not ye therefore partakers with them (the children of disobedience). For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: {for the fruit of the Spirit i ...

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