The Church Part Seven
THE
CHURCH PART SEVEN
There
is a church group that closes every group singing with a song that
has these words: “If you are in the battle for the Lord and right,
keep on the firing line; If you would win my brother surly you must
fight/ You must fight, be brave, against all evil, never run or even
lag behind. If you would win for God and the right, keep on the
firing line.
Lesson
six put forth the church attitude that some are still experiencing.
Here and there are a remnant of the true church worshiping children
of God. There is a great Luke warm attitude blending into the
Laodicean
style of worship. God is not pleased with that method of church
living. Do we, as the waning church, type take our ease because our
worship methods are fading into a new apostate era? NO! Let
us consider what an old time Southern preacher said: “It’s time
for our church to wake up and sing up, pray up and preach up and
never give up or let up or back up or shut up, until the church is
filled up or we go up. Amen.” So here we find ourselves in the
onset of the seventh message sent to the church. It is that time and
and the beginning of the end of time.
Time
lines between the church types are indistinctly
suttle
but observable. There are types from all periods present today in
unknown numbers. However we are to consider the “Luke warm Church”
in this lesson.
Rev.
3: 14
“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning
of the creation of God; 15I know thy works, that thou art neither
cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16So then because thou
art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my
mouth. 17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:” 18
I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be
rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that
the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
20
Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open
the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with
me.
21
To
him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as
I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Those
of the church on the way out and up. Must work and pray for a turning
back of deceived
worshipers who are led by deceived
and apostate presenters of church services. “There
ain’t no stopping place down here.” There is a God given method
of reaching out and it is not found in government programs, lobbying
activities, civil disobedience or pressure groups. I find no place in
God’s Word where this is advocated or condoned. The mission of
those in the weening church of Philadelphia
is witnessing to lost souls of the redemption available through the
Lord Jesus Christ.
There
are evidences that the church creeping onto the scene today will be
in existence when Jesus comes in the clouds to snatch His church, his
bride, quickly away. Compare the status of the readings concerning
this seventh church perios in history to the booming churches of
today. There is a great danger of the easy admittance
into the apostate worship groups and the bells and whistles of
drawing young Christians
in to the luke warm flock. Some sit on pews today ready to make the
leap into destructive
behavior. The
field is ripe, where are the workers?
The
Holy Spirit stands at the ready should one seek repentance. He has
control over the evil one, letting him perform his magic as it
pleases God. He controls the old slew foot. It may seem a mystery to
us. (2
Thessalonians 2:7)
“For
the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth
will let, until he be taken out of the way.” When
the true believers and the dead in Christ experience the
harpazo
of
Christ,
wholesale and quick taking away, the Holy Spirit leaves with them and
the devil is not restrained.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16 “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up (harpazo/rapture) together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Accept
God’s offer of eternal life on faith; now! If not, soon there will
come an accounting as His
children
are
whisked
away from the wrath of God to come.
Revelation
16:15 “Behold,
I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his
garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”
The
lukewarm church which is growing prolifically today will have missed
the mark of perfection required of God to take that glorious ride on
the clouds with Jesus to forever be with Him. Christians reach as
many as you can while you can. It
will be a terrible time for those left behind. Warn them now while
there is still time. When the church that is drifting from the
reformed principals of Christianity into a lukewarm, half right/half
amiss, church of the seventh sector of God’s plan for human kind
sees the second coming there will be no hope. The devil has his,
don’t be one of them.
Luke
13:28 “There
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham,
and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God,
and you yourselves thrust out. Ephesians
5:15 “See
then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Revelation
1:7 “Behold,
he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also
which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because
of him. Even so, Amen.” Know
God, know peace. 03-04-2020
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