Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Our faith in God is our assurance of that rest.
Believing God and what He says!
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Now faith.... is present tense! It is faith in action right now!
Substance of things...........Greek word, hupostasis: it means a support , ground work, confidence.
We must have faith in God to enter into this rest! Our faith in God and what He says supports everything that we are in Christ!
In the third chapter of Hebrews, God shows us an example of a people brought out of Egypt who were still full of Egypt! They had no faith in God, who had brought them out of Egypt or that He would take care of their need in the wilderness.
God wasn't pleased with them!
I know that we have to face our giants today, but we must face them with faith in God.
"We must enter into this rest!"
Psalm 95:1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
95:3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
95:5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
We see the attitude of the believer who has entered into this rest!
O, come let us sing unto the Lord! is their cry.
Lets us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Their attitude is right and it shows!
This rest is lost when we harden our hearts to God.
Exodus 15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
The children of Israel, just delivered through the Red Sea, are led three days and they have no faith in God!
"We will never enter into this rest without faith in God!
In the day that we live, we hear so much murmuring about what's going on.
We must be a people who believe by faith in God to sustain us in every circumstance.
God is still the same : Yesterday....Today....and Forever!
Some must enter into this rest! There remaineth a rest for the people of God!
No matter how bad it gets......."There remaineth a rest for the people of God!"
Do you still have the song of the Lord right now in what you are going through?
Are you faithful to God while He is faithfully at work in your life while you can't see what He's doing?
Some must enter into this rest!
It's our choice. Which will it be?
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
"We Do Because We Are."
1John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
In today's religious circles, when a minister or believer speaks on the subject of "doing", he or she will get a quick response.
Especially, if what you say requires a putting away of things or admonitions to put on Christ.
Immediately, they will say that we are under grace, God doesn't require us to do anything because Christ has already done all that's needed.
True…. the Lord Jesus Christ has paid the price for sin and opened up a New and Living Way (Himself), but we must enter in as we are obedient to do His commandments.
Jesus said : "If you love Me , you will keep (do) My commandments.
There always comes a "To Do List" with everything.
I have been laying brick full-time since 1970, the year I graduated from High School. Every job, whether big or small always requires of me to do!
There's the getting the materials together, such as, sand, mortar and brick. All of these things have to be brought together by someone, and then they have to be mixed together correctly.
And there has to be a "doing.” I have to do, or else the job doesn't get done.
Now, I could AT&T it, like some folks are saying in religious circles today.
I could Act like its done, I could Talk like its done, and I could Think like its done.
I would be playing a game! Nothing would come together. Sand would be in a pile somewhere...water would be waiting to be brought to the sand.... and mortar would be still in a bag somewhere. Useless materials by themselves because there was no doing!
In order for the sand to have strength to hold the bricks together, I couldn’t act like, talk like, or think like.
Why? because I would be playing games, when I should be "doing!"
When is the Church going to wake up and realize: "We do because we are!"
God's Word says in the Old Testament and the New Testament that we are to be holy, for God is holy.
I want to share this with you. "We Do because We Are!"
What does this mean?
Well, Paul said: We are to have the mind of Christ.
Paul said: Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ. Philippians 2:5
Paul told the church collectively and as individual believers, what to think upon. Philippians 4:8 But for the most part, if you were able to read minds, you would be shocked at what most professing Christian's minds are on.
Paul said: Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
They would call Paul a legalist today!
God has truly opened the New and Living Way through Christ in which no man has to go to accomplish payment for sin. But, we must enter in through Christ, as we live the Life of Another.
We don't drink, do drugs, or live immoral lifestyles to try to appease God! No...... we live the Life of Another....Jesus Christ!
The same John that said: "God is love", said:
1John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
"We do because we are!"
I'm not doing the will of God to try to be accepted of God. No...I'm doing His will because I am His!
"We do because we are!"
1John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
In this our love for Christ is matured or perfected...made complete!
When our love is perfected, we don't care what the compromised religious machine says! We love them, but we remain true to the Word of God!
Call us legalist...call us old fashioned....call us what ever! But, it doesn't matter! It doesn't change our love for God and His word!
"We have to know that we must deny ourselves and follow Christ.
"We do because we are!"
In today's religious circles, when a minister or believer speaks on the subject of "doing", he or she will get a quick response.
Especially, if what you say requires a putting away of things or admonitions to put on Christ.
Immediately, they will say that we are under grace, God doesn't require us to do anything because Christ has already done all that's needed.
True…. the Lord Jesus Christ has paid the price for sin and opened up a New and Living Way (Himself), but we must enter in as we are obedient to do His commandments.
Jesus said : "If you love Me , you will keep (do) My commandments.
There always comes a "To Do List" with everything.
I have been laying brick full-time since 1970, the year I graduated from High School. Every job, whether big or small always requires of me to do!
There's the getting the materials together, such as, sand, mortar and brick. All of these things have to be brought together by someone, and then they have to be mixed together correctly.
And there has to be a "doing.” I have to do, or else the job doesn't get done.
Now, I could AT&T it, like some folks are saying in religious circles today.
I could Act like its done, I could Talk like its done, and I could Think like its done.
I would be playing a game! Nothing would come together. Sand would be in a pile somewhere...water would be waiting to be brought to the sand.... and mortar would be still in a bag somewhere. Useless materials by themselves because there was no doing!
In order for the sand to have strength to hold the bricks together, I couldn’t act like, talk like, or think like.
Why? because I would be playing games, when I should be "doing!"
When is the Church going to wake up and realize: "We do because we are!"
God's Word says in the Old Testament and the New Testament that we are to be holy, for God is holy.
I want to share this with you. "We Do because We Are!"
What does this mean?
Well, Paul said: We are to have the mind of Christ.
Paul said: Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ. Philippians 2:5
Paul told the church collectively and as individual believers, what to think upon. Philippians 4:8 But for the most part, if you were able to read minds, you would be shocked at what most professing Christian's minds are on.
Paul said: Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
They would call Paul a legalist today!
God has truly opened the New and Living Way through Christ in which no man has to go to accomplish payment for sin. But, we must enter in through Christ, as we live the Life of Another.
We don't drink, do drugs, or live immoral lifestyles to try to appease God! No...... we live the Life of Another....Jesus Christ!
The same John that said: "God is love", said:
1John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
"We do because we are!"
I'm not doing the will of God to try to be accepted of God. No...I'm doing His will because I am His!
"We do because we are!"
1John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
In this our love for Christ is matured or perfected...made complete!
When our love is perfected, we don't care what the compromised religious machine says! We love them, but we remain true to the Word of God!
Call us legalist...call us old fashioned....call us what ever! But, it doesn't matter! It doesn't change our love for God and His word!
"We have to know that we must deny ourselves and follow Christ.
"We do because we are!"
Friday, March 12, 2010
"HEAVEN OR HELL?"
The story is told of a Pastor long ago, who had a lawyer friend whom he had invited to services at his church several times.
Well, one Sunday morning he saw his friend come in the santuary of the church and immediately his thoughts were on a young man in his congregation who was in the habit of coming up to people and asking them if they were saved.
Well, the young man didn't have a whole lot up stairs but he had a whole lot down stairs in his heart.
The Pastor began to pray under his breath: "Lord help me to preach this sermon today and please don't let that young man go near the lawyer friend."
He knew that the lawyer was a very dignified man, and would be offended and walk out of the church.
So the Pastor preached his sermon and during the invitation, sure enough, the Pastor saw the young man go over to his friend and grabbed him by his coat, and he saw the lawyer friend turn and walk out angrily.
"Well, that's that!" he said.
But that night at about 12 midnight, the Pastor got a call, and it was the lawyer. He said, "Pastor, I need to talk to you".
The Pastor said: "Oh, I appologize for that young man bothering you in the service this morning."
The lawyer said: "I still need to see you, would you come over?"
The Pastor said: :|"I'll be right over."
When the Pastor gets to the door, the lawyer friend opens the door and says: "Pastor, I'm in distress! My soul perishes!"
So the Pastor prays with the lawyer friend and it doesn't take long to lead him into full salvation of the Lord!
Now, the Pastor being curious, sheepishly asked the lawyer friend: "Just what part of my sermon was it, that caused you to want to be saved?"
The lawyer friend said: "It was nothing in your sermon, but that young man....."
The Pastor interrupted and said: "Oh, I'm sorry for what that young man did!"
The lawyer friend said: "Don't be, it was what that young man said to me! What he said is why I'm saved!"
The Pastor said:"Just what did he say?"
Well, he came over to me and said: "Do you want to go to Heaven?" And I said "No!"
And the young man said: "Well, go to Hell", and just walked away from me.
It made me mad and I turned and walked out of the church. But as I walked down the street, the words: "Heaven or Hell" came to my mind. All I could think about was "Heaven or Hell", which one, which one will it be for me? I knew my soul was perishing! That's why I called you! I knew I knew I was lost and needed to be saved"
Today, that's the ultimate question we have to ask ourselves. "Heaven or Hell."
If we are truly saved, we should truly care enough to speak the truth in love to so many that are around us each day, our familes, our friends, and those we don't know but God so loved that He gave His only begotten Son for. Don't hide your Light!
Don't worry about having your head filled with a lot of knowledge just have your heart filled with a lot of Christ!
Just remember......."Do you want to go to Heaven?"
Are you going to get mad at the messenger God uses?
What do you say?
Remember both places are real........ and they are forever.
Well, one Sunday morning he saw his friend come in the santuary of the church and immediately his thoughts were on a young man in his congregation who was in the habit of coming up to people and asking them if they were saved.
Well, the young man didn't have a whole lot up stairs but he had a whole lot down stairs in his heart.
The Pastor began to pray under his breath: "Lord help me to preach this sermon today and please don't let that young man go near the lawyer friend."
He knew that the lawyer was a very dignified man, and would be offended and walk out of the church.
So the Pastor preached his sermon and during the invitation, sure enough, the Pastor saw the young man go over to his friend and grabbed him by his coat, and he saw the lawyer friend turn and walk out angrily.
"Well, that's that!" he said.
But that night at about 12 midnight, the Pastor got a call, and it was the lawyer. He said, "Pastor, I need to talk to you".
The Pastor said: "Oh, I appologize for that young man bothering you in the service this morning."
The lawyer said: "I still need to see you, would you come over?"
The Pastor said: :|"I'll be right over."
When the Pastor gets to the door, the lawyer friend opens the door and says: "Pastor, I'm in distress! My soul perishes!"
So the Pastor prays with the lawyer friend and it doesn't take long to lead him into full salvation of the Lord!
Now, the Pastor being curious, sheepishly asked the lawyer friend: "Just what part of my sermon was it, that caused you to want to be saved?"
The lawyer friend said: "It was nothing in your sermon, but that young man....."
The Pastor interrupted and said: "Oh, I'm sorry for what that young man did!"
The lawyer friend said: "Don't be, it was what that young man said to me! What he said is why I'm saved!"
The Pastor said:"Just what did he say?"
Well, he came over to me and said: "Do you want to go to Heaven?" And I said "No!"
And the young man said: "Well, go to Hell", and just walked away from me.
It made me mad and I turned and walked out of the church. But as I walked down the street, the words: "Heaven or Hell" came to my mind. All I could think about was "Heaven or Hell", which one, which one will it be for me? I knew my soul was perishing! That's why I called you! I knew I knew I was lost and needed to be saved"
Today, that's the ultimate question we have to ask ourselves. "Heaven or Hell."
If we are truly saved, we should truly care enough to speak the truth in love to so many that are around us each day, our familes, our friends, and those we don't know but God so loved that He gave His only begotten Son for. Don't hide your Light!
Don't worry about having your head filled with a lot of knowledge just have your heart filled with a lot of Christ!
Just remember......."Do you want to go to Heaven?"
Are you going to get mad at the messenger God uses?
What do you say?
Remember both places are real........ and they are forever.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Prophets Gone Wild
They'll prophesy you wealth, they'll prophesy favor, they'll prophesy you healing! They will promise you anything and everything! They are more spiritual than the Apostle Paul!
Why? because they go to the third heaven many times in the same day.
They’ll look right into the T.V. camera and tell you that, “God’s going to send a blessing in real-estate but they don’t tell you that many poor souls are losing their homes.
These are so-called Christian prosperity prophets that ask you to sow seeds into their ministries (preferably twenties or larger, according to your faith).
What ever happened to looking on the things of others than on the things of yourselves?
Who are these prophets? God knows them!
“PROPHETS GONE WILD!”
Jeremiah 23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Jeremiah's heart is overcome with complete brokenness over the condition of the prophets of his day. All his bones trembled at how the Lord's words of holiness was cast away, and exchanged for the words of "PROPHETS GONE WILD!"
Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Because of their unrestrained ways, because of unfaithfulness to God, the land mourns. The times of refreshing from the Lord are no where to be found! They have chartered a course of evil intent, where no valor is found among it's rank!
Jeremiah 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
"Preachers preaching with fleshly motives, covetous practices!"
2Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
These prophets and priest have their own versions of the Bible, they make it sound to appeal to the worldly nature. They would never use a King James Version! It's not relevant to the times, they say. (And there are, some other good versions of the Bible.)
The problem with so many versions are of man today, the Spirit of God isn't sought for guidance into all truth!
Jeremiah 23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
These PROPHETS GONE WILD that think that God doesn't judge sin any more in His Church will find themselves sliding in the darkness that they will continue to walk in!
God said: "I will bring evil upon them!"
The ministers today, that think that they can sin against God one day, commit adultery, lie and cheat against their spouse and divorce and never miss a beat in their ministry, will find a slippery way ahead!
When it is preached from the pulpits and the lifestyle of the leaders have GONE WILD, then there will be those in the pews that will follow the example of their leaders!
Jeremiah 23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
God has seen their folly!
The word folly, means frovolity. It means to treat God's true word frivolously. To esteem what God says, lightly!
They aren't speaking for God, and they are leading the people away from God!
Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
For the sake of having a crowd, to have the look of, God is really moving here, they welcome people to come and never preach a message that will deal with sin in their lives.
Therefore, people come in and can live homosexual lifestyles, fornicate, commit adultery, and have all kinds of ungodly practices going on within their church, and say to someone who challenges their practices, they say that God is love and we must not judge them.
They can all sing that they love Jesus with all their hearts and be full of corruption at the same time!
We as preachers and ministers of the Gospel of Christ must be willing to be holy before God and preach the holy Word of God!
Judgment must begin at the house of God!
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
We must judge ourselves, by repenting and following Christ with our whole heart!
Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
God said that He would bring a curse upon these PROPHETS GONE WILD!
God said He would feed them wormwood and give them gall to drink, which both are poison! Their drink and their food would be poison!
It is just a matter of time for the poison to take an affect!
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
People, don't do what these PROPHETS GONE WILD are saying! They’ll make you like them, vain and worthless!
Their vision isn't birthed of God, but they speak out of themselves! NOT OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD!
Jeremiah 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
They tell the lost that don't have any time for God, you come join us, you can have peace and walk in the flesh and no evil will come to you!
Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Which one of theses PROPHETS GONE WILD has stood in my counsel and heard from me!
None of them!
Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
God is going to send the Perfect Storm, that will violently come upon these PROPHETS GONE WILD.
You’d better run from them!
You’d better run unto the Lord!
Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
God will shake all things in the last days, that the things which can't be shaken will remain! PROPHETS GONE WILD will be removed! There will be a different opinion of these prophets after God performs the thoughts of His heart!
Jeremiah 23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
These PROPHETS GONE WILD were never sent by God! God never spoke His word to them! Yet they prophesied! They have crept in unawares!
Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
If these PROPHETS GONE WILD had stood in God's counsel, they would have been preachers of righteousness! They would be examples of a righteous lifestyle!
But they could not cease from sin! They could not stop deceiving unstable souls! Their hearts are filled with covetous practices!
They are cursed children!
What are they?
PROPHETS GONE WILD!
Why? because they go to the third heaven many times in the same day.
They’ll look right into the T.V. camera and tell you that, “God’s going to send a blessing in real-estate but they don’t tell you that many poor souls are losing their homes.
These are so-called Christian prosperity prophets that ask you to sow seeds into their ministries (preferably twenties or larger, according to your faith).
What ever happened to looking on the things of others than on the things of yourselves?
Who are these prophets? God knows them!
“PROPHETS GONE WILD!”
Jeremiah 23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Jeremiah's heart is overcome with complete brokenness over the condition of the prophets of his day. All his bones trembled at how the Lord's words of holiness was cast away, and exchanged for the words of "PROPHETS GONE WILD!"
Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Because of their unrestrained ways, because of unfaithfulness to God, the land mourns. The times of refreshing from the Lord are no where to be found! They have chartered a course of evil intent, where no valor is found among it's rank!
Jeremiah 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
"Preachers preaching with fleshly motives, covetous practices!"
2Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
These prophets and priest have their own versions of the Bible, they make it sound to appeal to the worldly nature. They would never use a King James Version! It's not relevant to the times, they say. (And there are, some other good versions of the Bible.)
The problem with so many versions are of man today, the Spirit of God isn't sought for guidance into all truth!
Jeremiah 23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
These PROPHETS GONE WILD that think that God doesn't judge sin any more in His Church will find themselves sliding in the darkness that they will continue to walk in!
God said: "I will bring evil upon them!"
The ministers today, that think that they can sin against God one day, commit adultery, lie and cheat against their spouse and divorce and never miss a beat in their ministry, will find a slippery way ahead!
When it is preached from the pulpits and the lifestyle of the leaders have GONE WILD, then there will be those in the pews that will follow the example of their leaders!
Jeremiah 23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
God has seen their folly!
The word folly, means frovolity. It means to treat God's true word frivolously. To esteem what God says, lightly!
They aren't speaking for God, and they are leading the people away from God!
Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
For the sake of having a crowd, to have the look of, God is really moving here, they welcome people to come and never preach a message that will deal with sin in their lives.
Therefore, people come in and can live homosexual lifestyles, fornicate, commit adultery, and have all kinds of ungodly practices going on within their church, and say to someone who challenges their practices, they say that God is love and we must not judge them.
They can all sing that they love Jesus with all their hearts and be full of corruption at the same time!
We as preachers and ministers of the Gospel of Christ must be willing to be holy before God and preach the holy Word of God!
Judgment must begin at the house of God!
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
We must judge ourselves, by repenting and following Christ with our whole heart!
Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
God said that He would bring a curse upon these PROPHETS GONE WILD!
God said He would feed them wormwood and give them gall to drink, which both are poison! Their drink and their food would be poison!
It is just a matter of time for the poison to take an affect!
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
People, don't do what these PROPHETS GONE WILD are saying! They’ll make you like them, vain and worthless!
Their vision isn't birthed of God, but they speak out of themselves! NOT OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD!
Jeremiah 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
They tell the lost that don't have any time for God, you come join us, you can have peace and walk in the flesh and no evil will come to you!
Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Which one of theses PROPHETS GONE WILD has stood in my counsel and heard from me!
None of them!
Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
God is going to send the Perfect Storm, that will violently come upon these PROPHETS GONE WILD.
You’d better run from them!
You’d better run unto the Lord!
Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
God will shake all things in the last days, that the things which can't be shaken will remain! PROPHETS GONE WILD will be removed! There will be a different opinion of these prophets after God performs the thoughts of His heart!
Jeremiah 23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
These PROPHETS GONE WILD were never sent by God! God never spoke His word to them! Yet they prophesied! They have crept in unawares!
Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
If these PROPHETS GONE WILD had stood in God's counsel, they would have been preachers of righteousness! They would be examples of a righteous lifestyle!
But they could not cease from sin! They could not stop deceiving unstable souls! Their hearts are filled with covetous practices!
They are cursed children!
What are they?
PROPHETS GONE WILD!
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