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Why have some professing Christians and their leaders during the course of my thirty plus years of service to the Lord accused me of being too serious and strict; my biblical instruction, naive? Isn’t it because they are not very serious about the Lord nor seek to fully obey His Word as it is written? In the shallow waters of faithless superficiality through manmade Christianity the religion, compromise or the corruptions of falsehood, these accusers resent anyone who with zeal to proclaim and live out the light of biblical Christianity exposes their darkness. But praise be to the triune God, only faith and full obedience to the end have been and will be rewarded (Numbers 14:20-24, 30-38; Hebrews 3:5-19, 10:35-39)! Anyone that believes to the contrary is deceived.
Truly, what the Lord led me to write in The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and to reiterate in the following edited 2011 blog repost, the Bible as God’s Word is a lost book to many insincerely professing American Christians. Statistics on Bible study and other measures of biblically taught faithfulness compiled by those such as The Barna Group sadly still support my Spirit empowered assertion. Just as the many insincere 7th century BC Israelites for whom the Book of the Law became lost as they went astray from the Lord, so, too, many insincere professing Christians today who are willfully disobedient to the Word; living and doing as it pleases them.
Professing Christians and especially the men who are God’s chosen leaders in the home and churches beginning with every guilty pastor and elder must repent from abandoning God’s Word as it is written in disobedience! Sirs, as I challenge you in my book, it is time to stop hating the faithful and join us as a king Josiah to the church you serve. Otherwise, since as the Lord’s servant and yours I have been permitted to look ahead in His prophetic Word, I will tell you what I see: I see that your visions of grandeur and perpetual earthly legacy born of ego, pride and selfish ambition are about to be dashed against the rocks as God’s judgment in the churches continues and intensifies (2 Chronicles 34:19-25; Jeremiah 25:32-38; 1 Peter 4:17-18)!
In continuing disobedience, your eternal future is not any better than your destroyed earthly legacy unless you do repent (1 Corinthians 3:5-17)! Why should the men you shepherd view the instruction in my book as somehow new? And why are you so fearful of its contents? I write nothing in my book that is not already written in the Book of books! But again, since the Bible uncorrupted is lost to you as the direct source material of your instruction and equally important example, you scorn and scoff at anyone or anything faithful to God and His Word that shows your shortcomings and corruptions instead of repenting so His Spirit-fired revival might come to you. Know this going forward: only the repentant will enjoy God’s peace in what is coming (2 Chronicles 34:26-28)!
Originally Posted July 24, 2011
One of the most remarkable signs of the times pointing to Christ’s near return is His propheti-cally insightful rhetorical question about the spiritual climate of the world at His coming found in Luke 18:8. His question comes at the end of a parable He gives to encourage men of faith to never lose heart but to always persist in prayer with God. He asks, “when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” While we would be tempted in pride to say yes, Christ’s knowledge of the future and the now observable steady decline of authentic, biblical faith among professing believers confirmed by statistics, points to a sobering no to His question.
Christianity’s march from the 1st century to this hour closely spiritually parallels Israel’s march from Egypt to Babylon. Significant in both is the setting aside of God’s Word. In Israel’s case, the Book of the Law was lost in the Temple complex only to be re-discovered by priests who had been ordered to restore the Temple by a faithful king named Josiah. After having the lost book read to him, the king repented before the Lord and feared His righteous judgment for the spiritual situation was far worse than he had thought. They did enjoy a temporary revival (2 Kings 22-23:27).
The fact that I and many other authors are writing books calling Christians to turn back to God’s will, way and Word is evidence that the Bible is lost in many hearts and churches. Physically, the printed pages are everywhere. Indeed, the Bible is the best-selling book on the planet! But due to a lack of genuine faith leading to real repentance, conversion, salvation and obedience among other reasons, the Book is lost to many in plain sight.
I rejoice to have been commissioned of the Lord to write The Strong Man Of God: Back to Basics. But it is heart-breaking to see the faces of men I teach who profess to be Christians, acting as if what I am teaching about being a man is a new discovery. The teaching of my book is and has been in the Book, the Bible, God’s unchanging Word that is to fire our faith and obedience even until Christ’s return. We need to find God’s lost Book once again. You can begin in my book that for the sake of our men, families and communities we might enjoy at least a temporary revival.
The times are more than changing, they are degenerating toward such evil that if the people of Noah’s generation could see it, they would put their hands to their mouths in horror (Genesis 6:5-7, 11-13; Luke 21:10; Romans 1:18-32; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Revelation 6:1-4, 9:13-21)! These are days of decision about where a man will stand; days when it will be finally impossible to cloak where you stand on the issues of identification with Christ, biblically defined righteousness and good or the world’s redefinitions that are wrong and evil. The day of the silent endorser of evil is drawing to its close. A man is either fully in or out, for or against; no longer able to hide in the anonymity of silence.
Much evil has been carried out in secular and church history because of the silence of the silent majority. American history is no exception and in today’s 2013 blog repost, I am led by the Lord to challenge professing Christians in our nation to examine their souls and prepare themselves for the consequences of being a Jesus follower in these ever darkening days. Pastors stuck in the ego driven mindset of building the largest possible church whatever evil it takes including willfully being silent on the truths of God’s Word beware. Faithful undershepherds of Christ laboring in churches small and large: keep fighting “the good fight of faith,” (1 Timothy 6:11-16, NKJV)!
Silent is not one of the accusations that have been attached to me as the Founder/President of Open Door Communication Ministries, Inc. Too serious and strict, yes; silent--never, though some who claim to love the Lord have wished it to be so! Yet (Ezekiel 33:1-9), the Ministry will celebrate the thirtieth year since its founding with the roll out of its new informational Web Site, www.opendoorcommin.org this Wednesday, August 12th at Noon PST. I extend a personal invitation to our readers to visit the site and have most of your questions answered about the Ministry the Lord brought into being through me to fulfill His will. I hope you will also let the Lord speak to you about helping us as a prayer and financial partner to keep His voice through us active as long as possible (1 Corinthians 16:9).
Originally Posted March 10, 2013
The national crisis created by the vocal abolitionist movement which eventually led to the Civil War had much to do with forcing everyone in America with a stake to finally declare where they stood on the issue of slavery. Up to then, sympathizers from either the North or South could pretty much go along silently with the status quo as it was with no fear of trouble. This was especially true in the churches where the silent many had gone along with the cruel enslavement of blacks seemingly without a twinge of guilt.
In his Letter From A Birmingham Jail during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took note of this silent many in America’s conservative white evangelical churches that by their silence, were complicit and in point of fact endorsing the legal but biblically immoral oppression of black Americans; a great number of whom were fellow Christians.1 The silent endorsers of evil, of course, are from many diverse backgrounds and circumstances as well as everywhere in and all throughout history. These are persons that mostly from fear of some form refuse to speak up or act to support what they know is right or challenge what is wrong.
Such persons are well represented in the Bible narrative and no where therein more sadly than the account of how the many among the Jewish rulers dealt with the issue of being publically known as a believer in our Lord Jesus. John writes, “Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God,” (John 12:42-43, NKJV). Out of fear of what other men would think, say or do to them, most of these many rulers who believed in Christ, held their peace right up through His crucifixion and became silent endorsers of evil.
All throughout my journey as a Christian I have met such men as denominational workers, seminary professors, pastors and church members. They know that I either spoke or wrote the truth from God’s Word, but because of fear of what standing with me might cost them, left me standing alone. They fear the loss of prestige, jobs, 401ks, homes, material things etc. because their priorities are tied to this present world (Psalm 17:13-14).
They remain silent when others around them assail my motives and character failing as they do to appreciate that as an aspiring strong man of God in the image of Jesus Christ, I have genuinely found that “pearl of great price” and set my mind as all of them should likewise on what is above and eternal (Psalm 17:15; Matthew 6:19-21, 13:45-46; Colossians 3:1-4, NKJV)! While there have been exceptions, most notable for me was the courageous effort Ed Malone, a white, Southern Baptist radio executive made to help me produce the Lord’s sobering broadcast call to repentance, From Slavery To Victory: One Man’s Journey in 1994.2
Christianity the religion in all of its cultural variations in the churches and related entities makes it easy to be a silent endorser of evil. Conformity with the status quo in its ranks is a valued and well rewarded virtue. This would be good if in fact, what men were conforming to was purely of God and His Word. But instead--just as the Lord Jesus encountered among His people in the 1st century, what men are expected to conform to are the expectations, doctrines, rules, traditions, thinking and attitudes of sinful men overlaid with the outward veneer of religiosity; among the most wicked, men who corruptly use Scripture to support their own ends and of those more nobly minded but no less deceived, men attempting the impossible effort to please God in the flesh (John 6:63; Romans 7:14-8:13).
In the end, only two men stepped up publically from among the silent many rulers of Israel to identify themselves as supporters of Christ: Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (Luke 23:50-51; John 7:45-52, 19:38-42). Now, the world’s hatred for professing Christians is increasing and the foretold days of severe persecution draw near (Matthew 24:9). Who will step from the shadows among the silent many in the churches today (that by their silence are endorsing much evil) to publically identify with Christ and suffer with their brothers that do likewise in those days (Mark 8:34-38)?
1 Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, (New York: Signet Books, 1964), 90-92.
2 Get your copy of this historic and award winning Radio Special at https://fromslaverytovictory.org/Commemorative-Cassette.
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