When Jesus returns, how many will he find who have faith?

I am not sure a lot of Christians understand the severity and importance of where we are at in the timeline of the church age. To be more exact, Christ is soon to return for the body of Christ, the Christians. Are we prepared?

As Christians, we should have urgency in our innermost beings. First, are we ready to meet Jesus in the catching away of the church and then are we doing everything we can to tell our loved ones and those around us of Jesus’ saving grace?

Jesus asked in Luke 18:8, “… when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?’’ Or as another translation says, ‘’... when I, the Son of Man, return, how many will I find who have faith?”

Christians, we must walk the walk that Christ has set before us. The Word of God shows us how we should be living today. His word is not outdated. We must be doers of the Word, not just hearers only.

Walking in love is the best way to show family members and friends about Jesus. Lots of times Christians witness to their loved ones that need Christ as their savior, and a little while later yield to the fleshy and carnal side of man that brings strife and other problems, therefore undoing much of the progress that may have been done to show those around them eternal life through Jesus Christ.

Christ is soon to return. This dispensation, the church age, is about over. We need to look at the five wise virgins in Matthew, chapter 25. Do we have the source, or are our lamps going out like the five foolish virgins? Living like the world with no regard to God’s word is not a good place for a Christian to be.

I was saved as young person, but after leaving home awhile, many other things became No. 1 in my life. Jesus was there, but not first or even second in my life until one day I let the Holy Spirit speak to me and I rededicated my life to Jesus, I repented.

When I study the Word and look back at those years as a lukewarm Christian, I do not know if I would have gone in the rapture. Now, I did not say I would not have gone to heaven when I died, but no one should want to be around during the Great Tribulation because the antichrist will be brutal and deadly to those who resist his lordship.

I know this is a hard message for some Christians to accept, but let’s face it — there are many false teachers out there who have deceived Christians in believing they don’t have to follow the word of God in their daily lives. Yes, they’re living a life of sin with no repentance.

Be ready, do not be a lukewarm Christians as we see in the church of the Laodiceans in Revelation 3:14-20: ‘’I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth ... repent.’’

Jesus came to give eternal life. We need to be bold and tell as many as we can of Jesus’ saving grace. I encourage each one of us to do a spiritual check up. We need to set our theology and unscriptural teaching aside and take up the Bible, God’s Word, and follow those teachings, study the four Gospels then the letters to the church (you and me) the Epistles from Acts to Jude, and of course don’t stop there.

‘’I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am, there you may be also.” (John 14:3)

The one Scripture that I see that says it very plain is 1 Thessalonians 4:17: ‘’... then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.”

Lavon Barve works with Cup of Life Ministry in Wasilla.

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