While the United States is experiencing a turn of events in its leadership, the church is still waning from pulpits accepting wokeness over the past ten years or so. I know you enjoy the dynamic presentations you attend with those dark sanctuaries, large LED screens, and audio systems so powerful they can make your chest pound with every beat, and how about that pulpit ministry man, can he/she pump you up and make you feel great?
Today’s ministerial venues are based on the premise that if we give them what they want, they will come. This is a missed understanding of what Christ and His body of believers are to do when amid the opportunity of praise and worship and the word by the Holy Spirit. HOWEVER, suppose I told you that even though praise and worship and the word are inevitable for a child of God, there is a way in which it is all done that does not need any of those things to be dynamic.
So, before I go further, you need to know something.
The devil, for those of you who may not know he exists, or choose to deny he does, is evil by nature, and his influence on worldly orders through those who have no true sense of good and evil is as revealed in the world. Thus, for God’s sons and daughters to be influenced to surrender themselves and their children to a cruel and wicked system shows that they lack knowledge of the truth.
1 John 2:16 (AMP) For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].
If you, as a believer, do not know or are trying to ignore it to maintain your everyday life, you and the children you are raising today will be the spiritual leaders of tomorrow. What is more important is that those born of those called a child of God are not just God’s future spiritual children but HIS LINEAGE He decreed for eternity. I believe the enemy has had the opportunity far too long to influence the lives of God’s sons and daughters, breaking up His family unity and unions of marriage built on covenants. The reality is that all the things the devil uses to influence and bring this about are based on worldly things through a deception spiritually enforced for ignorance of the truth of the word of God.
Now that we have that truth, in our way, let us continue. I said God’s children are surrendering themselves and their offspring to a cruel and wicked system, because they are influenced to do so by leadership that believes inclusively. Deeming all are entitled to be ministered to by a present-day social desire for dynamics. In other words, what the world uses to influence the hearts and minds of humanity, which is shaped by episodes of dynamic expression by the news and social media, is to conform everyone’s thinking to a new ministry standard.
Mark 4:18-19 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, 19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
What happened is that believers have become minded to rely upon the ability of those influencing their spiritual well-being, by things not of the spirit of God, leaving them dependent on the systems of this world rather than on the God of the Word. How does such a thing happen to a believer? The dynamics brought into today’s sanctuaries misplace the word of God because the word is contrary to the world’s ways, and since believers are more susceptible to worldly things, they accept the social order of evils that occur.
If you ponder what I just said for too long, it will rub a sore spot on your spirit. But what I want you to understand is that all of this manner of presentation is for naught, because you, the believer, are part of a family that by God’s plan only requires you and Him, by the Holy Spirit, to experience a dynamic that far exceeds anything you can imagine.
Prov 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Do not think for a moment that God has no idea how to train His children. He, above everyone, knows how to do it, but when those children are willing to do things according to the cruel and wicked ways of the world, rather than His, He will not stand in their way. The fact that signs, wonders, and miracles by the Holy Spirit have gone by the wayside amid church camaraderie is evidence that there is an abstinence taking place. This is not because He wants it that way but because leadership finds revelation by the Holy Spirit to be in conflict with dark santuraries and expressionistic praise and worship, as well as humanist terms being delivered at pulpits.
Heb 10:24-25 And let us consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love and helpful deeds and noble activities, 25 Not forsaking or neglecting to assemble together [as believers], as is the habit of some people, but admonishing (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another, and all the more faithfully as you see the day approaching.
This is only one set of verses that conflicts with today’s churches. Why? Because everyone is watching over their own a$$ and not considering others for the sake of Christ, but for the sake of compliance to an evil work of inclusivity. Wait a minute, are you telling us that we are forsaking and neglecting to assemble? Yes, but by the work of the Holy Spirit, which today is not occurring amid these cruel and wicked appearances of worldly events.
Some of you don’t get it, so I’m going to break this down for you. The Spirit of God does not appear because of dark caverns or sanctuaries so dim you need a flashlight to get to your seat. He is the one who is the light that shines on the darkness, revealing the sin within it.
John 3:19-21 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
He inhabits the praise of God’s people, whether Israel or the Gentiles of the Church; therefore, it must be of a nature that is formed in righteousness, not by expressionistic mannerisms that appear as praise and/or worship, but by a righteous statute established in Jesus Christ. He enters such a presentation as it aligns with the truth in His word.
Ps 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
If you have a heart for God, you have to ask yourself, if this new manner of church ministry is how it is supposed to be, then how did anyone come to Christ in the past? Since none of this technology was available, most especially in the time of the early Church when God added numbers of three and five thousand a day. Act 2:41 Those who believed the word that day numbered three thousand. They were all baptized and added to the church. Act 4:4 Yet there were many in the crowd who believed the message, bringing the total number of men who believed to nearly five thousand!
The answer is again, none of this means anything, it is the Spirit of God who draws someone to Christ, and it is Christ who reveals God, so the working of all things are on such a spiritual level that no one in humanity can achieve it without the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit as is referred to today. Now don’t get your face all down in the dirt, God is not going to be mocked by these dynamic presentations, so that means what you now see is going to change into the very thing He has expressed in His word. Therefore this issue is so exaggerated throughout the churches that it requires many a testament to the truths that reveal its cruel and wicked work in and among the body of Christ.
The title of this blog is defined in the fact that churches are so far away from the truth that the Holy Spirit cannot reveal it, while at the same time, they are just an immediate turn of the heart, toward the truth, away from His presence.
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