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All praises, honor and glory be to the God of my salvation; the God who saved a wretch like me and granted that I with all others saved should be reconciled to Him and become an ambassador of Christ in the Gospel! In this amazing message of love, grace, forgiveness and reconciliation we proclaim to the world, our God speaks through us now and we to all with the utmost of urgency: “be reconciled to God,” (2 Corinthians 5:18-21, NKJV)! Time is of the essence as spiritual conditions and events foretold by the Lord through His prophets in Bible prophecies dormant for millennia begin to awaken to fulfillment.
The Lord’s plea to be reconciled to Him in this and every generation since the first century includes those that profess to have done so already as the Christians the apostle Paul writes to. He exhorts them “not to receive the grace of God in vain,” (2 Corinthians 6:1, NKJV). Their assumed past salvation and reconciliation to God was possible because in Christ, the proper time had come (2 Corinthians 6:2a). By way of forceful reminder to them and so many sinning professed Christians today, he also declares: “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,” (2 Corinthians 6:2b, NKJV)!
As the larger context makes clear, the Corinthians were in need of repentance from sin which to Paul’s delight he was convinced by their behavior they had experienced (2 Corinthians 6:3-7:16). I am praying and laboring for the same outcome of repentance from sin leading to revival for those professing to be Christians throughout our nation as the Lord gives leadership since the alternatives are not at all pleasant. Thus, it is imperative that professing Christians receive the instruction the Holy Spirit is giving us for this time in all soberness and with Bibles and hearts open.
Do not be lulled into complacency in the aftermath of the recent national election that because of political philosophy would seem to hold out hope for a long-term halt to the slow decline of our nation. Not so! In the grace of our God, only a temporary door of opportunity with lessened government hostility and hindrances for the proclamation of the Gospel and practice of the Christian faith will open (1 Corinthians 16:8-9; 2 Corinthians 2:12-17). However, this door will quickly close and without needed repentance among professing Christians leading to Holy Spirit fired revival and a renewed vigor to obediently fulfill our Lord’s “Great Commission,” be squandered. For the foretold times leading up to and the “appointed time of the end shall be,” (Daniel 8:19, NKJV).
Therefore, the God and only Savior of mankind reiterates again with great urgency to all alive today in our nation: repent and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ; that He died on the cross for our sins, was buried and on the third day rose again. Do this, so you will be forgiven of your sins, reconciled to God, receive the Holy Spirit, eternal life and deliverance from His wrath that will destroy this present evil world as we have known it. This is urgent now because the time God has allotted for the world to respond to His gracious offer grows short as prophetic fulfillment shows. Too, all anyone has is now since no one knows the day of his death when God’s offer of reconciliation also ends.
Finally, there is the present danger and foretold latter day reality of one developing a hardened heart toward God and His offer. A hardened heart is one that obstinately resists God even after severe judgments for the sake of holding onto a sinful mindset and lifestyle (Exodus 7:14-9:7; John 3:16-21). In the case of professing Christians deceived by sin, without repentance they continue in faithless, willful rebellion against God’s clearly known will, way and Word until their hearts harden solid in resistance as we have been warned not to allow because of the painful temporal and eternal consequences (Proverbs 28:13-14; Hebrews 3:7-19, 6:4-8, 10:26-31). Indeed, as I have repeatedly warned, the Lord has already begun judging in His house (1 Peter 4:17-18).
For this reason, understanding this day of salvation aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ purposely put Him on and accept the Father’s loving discipline so we can please Him and do His will (Romans 13:11-14; Hebrews 12:3-11). This is all the more essential as we see in the persistent and growing hostility to biblical Christianity and rebellion against God as well as legalization of immorality and drug use, the trend toward hardening hearts is underway. Prophetically, we are shown this trend continues through God’s pre-wrath warning judgments that soon begin (Luke 21:11b; Revelation 8:1-11:14) and becomes irreversible in the time of the Antichrist (Revelation 13, 14:6-13) as proven when God targets his unrepentant worshippers in His wrath (Revelation 16:1-11).
Thank God, then, that in His continuing grace and mercy we still have a little bit of time left to freely preach the Gospel and witness Christ to an unsaved American citizenry that is not yet all hardened into sin. The Spirit empowered fruitful labor of this Ministry among boys and incarcerated men here in the Northwest--the most unchurched part of our nation--is evidentiary to me in this. So, now, I exhort every needful professing Christian to repent and be revived by the Holy Spirit so you may take your place among the revived saints in our nation and move with zeal to complete our Lord’s “Great Commission” here to the saving of many souls at this opportune time. The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
Although I have previously reported the hostility of many professing Christians and their churches practicing manmade Christianity the religion as their response to my service of love to them from the Lord over the years,1 I am in no way mystified as to why (Ephesians 6:12)! For this reason, the Lord’s ultimate consequence for those that refuse His call to repentance and revival through every means He employs is destruction as this edited 2012 repost soberly warns. Even so, it also presents the Lord’s stirring call to action to His aspiring strong men and great women of God!
Originally Posted August 19, 2012
If the Christian life is a supernatural life, it only stands to reason that any assembly of authentic Christians would be supernatural in character.2 After all, God dwells in each Christian and therefore, fills their assemblage (John 14:16-17; Romans 8:8-11; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:19-22). As a result, works of divine power ought to be the norm when believers assemble since God is in our midst! However, in many stoic American churches a Spirit empowered shout of praise to God is a rare event much less in the moment miracles (Mark 6:5-6). Many even believe they are being noble and dignified to hold their peace in church unlike king David and the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Chronicles 15:25-29; Revelation 19:5).
In fairness, other churches confuse ardent chaos with the Spirit’s presence and working. They think by allowing such disorder they are mimicking what the Holy Spirit authentically did on the Day of Pentecost when the entire assembly of Christ followers was set ablaze praising God in all of the languages Jews living in the land and from the dispersion spoke (Acts 2:1-13). And though the gathering crowd was confused about how it was that they heard the praise of God in their various languages, this confusion was their own from ignorance as unbelievers, not caused by God as Peter explains (Acts 2:14-39) and later, Paul instructs the church at Corinth (1 Corinthians 14:6-40).
Satan has known from the beginning that he would not be able to destroy the Church of the living God, the eternal construction of Jesus Christ (Matthew 16:15-18)! So, he has labored to infiltrate the churches with impostors and seduce the faithful into compromise and rebellion. Of the greatest compromises professed Christians have made since the first century is to seize control of churches to operate in the flesh and effectively dismiss the controlling influence and help of the Holy Spirit. This scenario is eerily similar to watching God abandon Solomon’s Temple because Satan used the same tactic with ancient Israel (Ezekiel 8:6, 9:3, 10:18-19, 11:22-23). Thus, why should it amaze anyone that such churches would either be dead or lukewarm (Revelation 3:1-3, 14-20)?
In smug pride and arrogance, many American Gentile Christians look down on ancient Israel thinking similarly to her first century leaders Jesus rebuked, “We would not have done what they did in their day,” (Matthew 23:29-33). In fact, however, they are doing exactly what the ancient nation in the flesh did and worse if after having been introduced to Christianity as a supernatural work of God, they turn it into a religion of human control and effort (Galatians 3:3). Relying more heavily on the use of worldly legal forms and methods of self-governance as Americans first rather than the instruction of God’s Word as Christians, there is political intrigue and subterfuge, contentions and even murders in full display of flesh works (Galatians 5:13-15, 19-21; James 4:1-10).
So in the flesh are many professing Christians and their churches today, they do not even see any difference enough in themselves and the planet’s many other religions that in the name of ecumenicalism, they seek fellowship with them on equal footing. This they do in willful defiance of and disregard for their holy calling (2 Corinthians 6:14-18). Do not all of the guilty realize you will give account of your sin to Christ who because He lives, sees and hears you (2 Corinthians 5:9-11)? No, we are no better than ancient Israel; just presented a superior covenant with the same responsibilities of faith, love, obedience and fruitfulness which failing in, results correspondingly in more severe consequences (Luke 12:47-48, 13:6-9; John 15:2a, 6; Hebrews 10:26-39; Revelation 17:1-19:4).
As the Spirit has given renewed unction this summer, I have been calling for repentance and revival among American Christians and their churches that are withering because I have not just seen the process from afar as a student of the Bible, history and statistics or observing others. But by the unsearchable ways of God I have seen the withering process firsthand as a pastor that presided over the death of a local church.3 If a professing Christian or church will not be what the Lord intended, they have no value to Him (Matthew 21:18-19; Luke 14:34-35). While He will give time for repentance in most cases, without it, His judgment befalls them as it did ancient Israel.
Therefore, let every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Christ rise up in His love and holy character to labor with me in prayer and deeds for repentance and revival among American Christians and churches (Jude 20-23). We labor in watchfulness of the night that is falling to “strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die” (Revelation 3:2, NKJV).4 And understanding our natural weaknesses and reluctance to step out of our comfort zones into certain suffering, in the reviving fire of the Holy Spirit we also seek a renewed “boldness” and power to do the will of Christ amid His mighty works in support (Acts 4:23-33, NKJV)!
As I write in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, we labor with fellow saints strengthened and emboldened through revival to conduct a final fulfillment of the Lord’s commission to us as His Church on earth in the unique supernatural character she possesses (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8). Understanding too, that this revival is preparation for the foretold global war against us that unfolds in earnest during the night that is falling, we continue to labor steadfastly in prayer for the Lord to launch His foretold end to this evil world system and Kingdom come in its place (Psalm 119:121-128; Luke 11:2; Revelation 8:1-6, 22:20). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 See the September 4, 2016 post, Christianity The Religion American Style, under the category, Call To Repent.
2 Read the 2012 repost of November 22, 2015, The Christian Life Is A Supernatural Life, under the category, Glory To God! 3 Read my August 30 and September 6, 2015 reposts on this subject to learn more. 4 Let me know of your interest in spiritual gifts by answering a single survey question on the Feedback Page of our Web Site.
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