If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
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… I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. If anyone does not love the Lord, let that person be cursed. Come, Lord. Come, Lord. That word is an Aramaic word. Maranatha. Maranatha, come, Lord. So just follow me for a second. Just a little kind of connect the dots Bible study moment. Paul's in Ephesus with Priscilla and Aquila who are leading this amazing church in their house in Ephesus on fire. Somewhere in the 50s A.D. 40 years later, a significant number in God's economy. The years that Israel wandered in the desert. 40 years later, in 96-ish, 95 AD, in chapter two of Revelation, write this letter to the church at Ephesus. The one that's on fire. The one that Paul is leading. the one that Priscilla and Aquila are pastoring on his behalf, the one that meets in their house, the one from which you wrote that Corinthian letter, the ones who all of them sent their greetings, the one where they were all in it for the kingdom of God, write this to them 40 years later. I have this against you. You've lost your first love. You're still doing the stuff, he said, but the fire of the proscuneo and the embrace of God with everything I have in him. …
… them for their unbelief. In 1 Corinthians 16, 22, we read that, ìIf anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be damned.î In Galatians 1, 8 and 9, ìIf anyone preaches another gospel, let him be anathema.î In Revelation 6, right where you are, look at verse 10. The saints are offering up prayers in this section, and their prayer is in verse 10 of Revelation 6. They cried out with a loud voice, saying, "'How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' These are the prayers of the ones who were martyred during the tribulation. They're praying for divine vengeance to requite those who took their lives. In the eighteenth chapter of Revelation, verse 4, I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, My people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues. So her sins, talking about essentially the whole earth during the tribulation, her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquity. …
Romans 10.17 says, faith comes by hearing the message concerning Jesus. First Corinthians 16.22 says, if you love not the Lord Jesus Christ, you're damned. And 1 Timothy 2.5 says, there's one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. He's the only gate. You must enter. If you want to be in the kingdom of heaven, you must enter, and you must enter this gate. A third thing to think about is you must enter this gate alone, alone. You leave the world behind. You leave family and friends behind. If you go a few chapters over to chapter 10 of Matthew, Hence In verse 34, Jesus said, Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And the man's enemies will be the members of his household." This is not a group exercise, not a matter of race, not a matter of circumcision, not a matter of family, not a matter of community. …