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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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