Daily Archives: April 24, 2012

Lawmakers: Force Churches to Host Gay Weddings

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The article is to be found here:  http://nation.foxnews.com/separation-church-and-state/2012/04/23/proposed-law-would-force-churches-host-gay-weddings?test=latestnews

 

There was a time when even the most sinful man respected what is holy among God’s people.  I see that this time is long past.  Now they clamour to bring down what is God’s and replace it with “clubs”.  The American wicked are not violently opposed to the message of the Gospel.  And they are actively trying to label God’s Church as nothing more than a legalized club of people who say they belive certain things.

In the end, they will destroy themselves.  But I am given cause to wonder why this hatred of Holy is among us.  I could easily attribute this situation to the devil’s antics among men.  But I perceive there is something even more horrible about it.  The Church has let down its guard and surrendered its place to those who do not lead with the power of God.

Last week I was thinking of the machine we have created to produce leaders.  We call it “higher learning”.  We select a few from among us and send them off to be trained to be leaders under Jesus.  I was one of them.  But when I entered service I found that I only had the power of man’s understanding of the things that are Holy.  I did not have the power of the Holy Spirit covering all my actions, thoughts, and attitudes.  I won’t mention the name of the place of “higher learning”.  It would be a crass thing to do.  But I can state, with firm knowledge, that what they taught me was merely man’s perspective.

The world points its ugly finger at everything.  The world hates and does not curb its desire to destroy.  So to point our finger at them is useless.  If there is to be a change in the current situation, such change must come from within the Body of Christ.  Is it possible to regain the ground we have surrendered to the world?  I don’t know.  I guess it depends on the willingness of the Church to back track on its foolish promises of authority to appoint leaders.  Personally, I don’t hold out much hope that men of God will be raised up with the power of God as long as its leaders make carbon copies of themselves.

Buying Your Stairway to Heaven?

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Central Christian Church

Central Christian Church (Photo credit: char1iej)

Perhaps, when you read this, it will not apply to you.  Or at least, you will think it does not apply to you.  I simply urge you to consider what is said here with a sober judgment of yourself.  Far too often we allow ourselves to be fooled by our own mind.  And this is a crucial point to be made among all men, especially the members of the body of Christ.

Entrance into the kingdom of heaven cannot be bought.  You can’t buy your way in by doing anything more than to receive the gift of God in Jesus, His Christ.  With that said, I know there are certain things we are compelled to do by the Lord’s commands.  And I do not speak against the things of God here.  What I am talking about is the things we do for the sake of being respected by God.  We would do well to be careful how we perceive those necessary things.

Some might attend every Church function perfectly.  I remember reading about a woman who received a reward from her Church because she did never missed attending.  I recognize that the Church was trying to say that dedication to the body of Christ was important enough to reward.  But such things can also cause men to be led into a wicked lie.  While rewarding good behavior is not to be frowned upon, it is wrong to leave a carrot before God’s people.  Let them secure God’s pleasure before man’s appreciation.  Then the man of God will serve out of a pure heart.

Men tend to try to buy what they are not willing to do.  A man hires someone to do the tasks he does not want to do.  And in this the Church often leads to folly.  Remember this incident from the book of Acts, and consider hard where you stand.

“Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying, ‘Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.’  But Peter said to him, ‘May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!  You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.  Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.  For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.’  But Simon answered and said, ‘Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”  (Acts 8:18-24)

Please, don’t judge what I have written here as an accusation against you.  There is one who does that, and this is not my intent.  I am simply trying to wake my brothers and sisters up to the facts of wickedness which lays within all of us.  Let us all consider how to clean the House of God.  Let us ponder how to remove every possible obsticle from the path of His people, and from those who desire to enter.

“The Way” is in the way

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In Christianity we learn about being in “The Way”.  The Way is that we walk according to the Righteous demands of the Most High God through Jesus.  None of us fully understand The Way.   For the ways of God are so very much higher than ours.  I won’t go into much more about this in this post.  It is a subject that could take up volumes of books, each 900 pages thick.  But today’s post has to do with another “the way”.

The entire world is busy chasing after whatever it can lay its grubby little hands on and keep.  All the while men, who are of The Way become in the way.  Happily, the man of this world runs after gain.  Then he comes upon a man of Christ and is caught with a problem.  Such men of Christ become in his way.  They stop him from his gain.  The resist being an accomplice to his desire.  And because of this we become an irritation.  Therefore, the people of this world perceive Christ’s people of The Way as being in the way.

It’s a curious play on words that few recognize as a good thing.