I have lived on this earth well over 60 years, and in this time there has been such a change, not a movement toward Christ, but a movement forward of the antichrist….. As a child in the old country Church, there were no frills’ in the “Sanctuary”, there were no flags with pagan emblems standing proudly over the alters, to show membership in a ~Religious Organization~ or of Caesars World, where we gathered to pray… IN Fact The only décor on the walls behind the pulpit was a huge scroll on the right that carried the words of: The Lord’s Prayer, and ON The Left, a huge scroll with the 23rd Psalm… They had a few peaceful scenes painted on them that depicted the peace of the Words Written in the 23rd Psalm… AND that is where we cast our fleshly eyes as we listened to the message of The preacher from God’s Written Word, which activated our spiritual eye to envision, ears to hear of, and hearts to embrace *THE Kingdom OF God*….
We didn’t gather at the Church to celebrate each others day of fleshly birth, to color, hid, and hunt eggs, to stand and proudly wave the patriotic emblems of the nation, but we gathered to learn God’s Word, sing HIS Praise, and Give Thanks down at the alter set there for, & before God, our Heavenly Father… Oh, we had food on the grounds at homecoming, and other occasions where we enjoyed each others company after the service… But the world was far away….
Don’t you suppose that Paul was not only writing to Timothy about those days back then, but to us today in this present time of modern conveniences, modern marvels, video games and cell phones that take away, the people to people, contact and isolate each individual in a world of withdrawal from the ~Guidance of The Holy Ghost~ . Can you with your fleshly mind multitask? DO you sit in Church and listen astutely to the message to prove IT right or wrong according TO The Holy Written Scripture? OR IS you mind and thoughts on the objects in the magazine that you are shopping in during the service, or the video game, or cell phone, I-pod, or macabre or modern romance book that you are reading? IS your ear really tuned to hear what the Spirit says, IF you are busy listening to the world and all that IT Offers? .. Because IT IS Written:….
(Romans 1:28) Even as ~They~ did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a ~~Reprobate mind~~ to do those things which are not convenient,,, - Being filled with ~~ALL~~ unrighteousness…..
How do you suppose men have been filled with ~~ALL~~ unrighteousness? BY exacting the Truth of God’s Written Word IN The Houses of Worship? Thus Strengthening the faith of man in God’s Statutes, HIS Will and HIS Way? OR By infiltrating the pagan customs, the ceremonies of heathen teachings, men’s traditional fables, and the love of the fleshly ways into the services, thus turning all eyes to the world, more-so -than- TO: THE Kingdom OF God, THE Father, Jesus Christ HIS Son, and THE Holy Ghost??? Do you walk away from the Sunday Service feeling like you have just been a part of the things that written IN:
(Titus 1:16)… They ~~Profess~~ that they *KNOW* God; but IN Works they *DENY* HIM; being ~~Abominable, ~Disobedient~, & Unto every ~~GOOD Work~~ Reprobate.God said, as HE Revealed to Isaiah to Write, and Jesus read and expounded on the writings of Isaiah in His Ministry on this earth….
(Isaiah 1:15-16).. When ye spread forth your hands, I (THE LORD) Will hide Mine Eyes from you, yea, When you make many prayers, I (THE LORD) Will NOT Hear: your hands are full of blood.. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters, ~~They~~ HAVE ~~ Forsaken~~ *THE LORD*, ~they Have Provoked~~ The Holy One OF Israel unto anger….they are going away backward…
When you are walking about all day with a cell phone attached to your ear, listening to the latest hip hop flowing through your brain continually, are you gonna hear the tiny still voice of Guidance of the spirit? IF God did not abide in or tolerate these things of old, ~IS~ HE gonna tolerate them now, just because IT IS modern times and God sent HIS Son to pay the sin debt? OH, modern man doesn’t include ~~ALL~~ the pagan practices from the olden days, just the souped up versions of fun things that make Bible Study exciting for the children and helps them to ~~Look~ for Jesus…. Does that make *IT* Right with God? Does that make HIS Written Word Valid OR Contaminate *IT*? Think about IT!
We want to preach and teach Jesus, we send e-mails of cute things that tell us, “Jesus Loves You”, we send out petitions to: Keep God on Caesar’s money, & Prayer in School, But there is no warning of, or exhorting of, obedience to: paying attention to: humbly bowing down to: sacrificing our time and giving of our lives to Christ… OH, we say, yeah, I gave my life to Christ and I was baptized, and now I can get on with ~~MY~~ life as I please, cause I‘m saved now… BUT That ain’t what IS Written… Giving your life to Christ---means turning over your all to God the Father, Through Jesus Christ, that the Holy Spirit guide you ~Into~ ALL Things… not the world, not you, yourself But that Jesus live in you and you In Him…. AND *IF* Jesus lives in your heart, thoughts, & mind, then ~Prayer~ IS always present…. In your thoughts, your communications by the Holy Spirit to God the Father IS Always open to hear that small still voice of Guidance….. corrupters, ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint....Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your ~~appointed feasts~~ my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear : your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear: The Law of The LORD…. Old or New Testament, God requires our dedication, our loyalty, our undivided attention, that ~~ALL~~ eyes be turned unto HIM… and This did not change when Jesus ascended back Into the Heavens… Because Paul warned:
(II Timothy 3: 1-17)… J .. THIS KNOW ALSO! That in the last days perilous times shall come, men shall be lovers of: ~Their own selves~ covetous, ~boasters~, proud, (ever think of THIS warning when you are parading the flag of the nation in God’s House and boasting in pride of where you live, instead of simply giving humble thanks unto God our heavenly Father in Jesus Name for the life that HE saw fit to give us here, the time to prove ourselves, whether we would serve God or Mammon.. Loyally?) blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy… without natural affection, trucebreakers, high minded, lovers of ~~pleasures MORE~~ than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, BUT ~Denying~ *THE POWER* thereof… from such turn away… FOR OF THIS sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers (many) lusts, ever learning and never able to come to *The Knowledge OF ~THE TRUTH~…L
Ever think about IT? While the men are all about commercialism, making that prophet in Caesars market, the women are led to show off that prophet and invent ~good times for all~ so both minds are busy at work, thinking gears turning, eyes every searching, itching ears listening for something modern, something exciting, something that will be better than old man Jones is doing, and while this is going on both are busy, busy, working in vain by trying to ~~Keep~~ God where they want HIM, instead of Obediently Following where God Leads us to go, … In their traditions, that they themselves invented to make things interesting.. It began long ago and has escalated throughout the ages.. And will continue to balloon until, God Says, “Enough”…. Few there be that find IT.. “The Path of Righteousness”…. BUT AS IT IS Written, “God’s Will, BE Done on earth as IT IS IN Heaven”…..
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