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Please read the following for Part 6 of The Vision: The Conclusion & Final Plee/ Warning..........
CONCLUSION& FINAL PLEE/ WARNING
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil (Ecclesiastes 12: 13)........
The Rise of the new "Liberal Christian" and the new "Doctrine of Grace" are major reasons for The Great Falling Away. The Liberal Christian believes that God tolerates sin. Their position is, that He (God) knows we can’t live “all the way” holy. He does not expect us to live all the way by His word. The Liberal Christian chooses what parts of the word they want to live by and when they want to live by them. The Liberal Christian also manipulates the word of God to justify their wrong. The Liberal Christian talks a Godly talk, but can't walk a Godly walk. They believe that they can make it into Heaven; even if they are actively practicing a life of sin every day. They believe that God loves us to much to send us to hell. They believe that as long as I praise God and work for God in the ministry, He is ok with what I do and say; even though it may conflict with His word (he will give me a pass). After all, He knows that we are human and that we sometimes fall to temptation. If someone tries to correct the Liberal Christian or encourage them to line up totally to God's word, they will accuse you of judging.....and no one can judge them but God. They get angry when you tell them about their sin. They are quick to tell you the following: "I'm grown!...You can’t judge me!...I can do what I want to do when I get ready…God knows my heart!...I may not do everything right, but he knows I love Him. I’m not perfect…I don’t let nobody tell me I’m not saved!”
The Liberal Christian loves church, but doesn't want to change. The Liberal Christian has no problem speaking in tongues on Sunday and cussing and lying on Monday. The Liberal Christian has no problem dancing in the club on Saturday night and jumping and shouting on Sunday morning. The Liberal Christian doesn't faithfully pay their tithes, but they faithfully play the lottery and don’t see anything wrong with it. The Liberal Christian listens to both gospel and secular music (hip hop & R&B) and doesn't see a problem with it. They can shack and fornicate and still serve on the praise team, choir and music committee with no problem. They can drink and smoke, and still serve on the deacon board without being convicted. They can gossip and backbite, and still serve on the mother’s board with no remorse. They can whore-hop, sleep around and still preach the Gospel right on. They love doing ministry work, but don’t want to surrender/ sell out all the way to God. They want the benefits and blessings of God, but don't want to walk in total obedience to Him. They resist fully submitting to the will and ways of the Lord, but rather fully indulging in their own fleshly desires. They used the Word of God to justify their wrong, making the word fit their lives, rather than making their life fit and line up with the Word. They believe on Jesus Christ, but they don't believe in Him (There's a difference). They believe He is the messiah and only begotten son of the father, but they don't believe in His power to enter their lives, change their hearts, break their habits and enable them to overcome the temptations of this world (1 Corinthians 10:13). They have enough faith to get stuff from God, but not enough faith to get delivered from sin.
The Grace Doctrine teaches that one can do whatever they want to do and participate in sinful activity whenever they feel like it, because God is a forgiving God. It teaches that we can flip flop back and forth between the church and the world as much as we want, because God is a merciful God. It teaches that we can sleep around as much as we want without being married, because God is so full of grace. This doctrine teaches that Jesus already died for our sins; so in essence, this allows us to sin all we want, because he has already paid for ALL of our sins (old and new sins, current and future sins).
This Grace Doctrine has made grace into an excuse to do what we want, when we want, how we want and who want to do it to (and with). It has made grace in essence, a get out of jail free card. These Grace Doctrine teachers have it partially right....God did indeed die for our sins…God is merciful...God is forgiving...God is full of grace, but he never intended for His grace to be our license to sin, but rather our liberty from sin! God knew that we were liable to make mistakes, so he provided grace for us. However, there is a HUGE difference between a mistake/ accident and a continual deliberate intentional constant practice of sin. A mistake means I had full intentions to do right, live right, and please God, but in the process of trying to do right, I messed up, I missed the mark, I came up short. For this cause God has provided grace for us. However, if we are not careful, we will begin making the same mistake repeatedly (over and over), then on a daily basis (every single day), and then we begin making the same mistake multiple times a day. Eventually, what was a mistake now becomes a practice. Then practices when repeated, become habits. Then if we continue on flip flopping between grace and sin, it will move from habit to stronghold. So what happens is the individual goes from controlling or managing the sin, to now being controlled by the sin (stronghold). Once this happens, they can’t stop doing it even if they wanted to, because now it has literally intertwined with the essence of their inner most being and has taken possession of their life – you become a slave to sin (Romans 6: 16 & John 8: 34). God then has to literally do spiritual surgery and cut that mess out of our lives and make us free – IF we TOTALLY surrender to Him (Romans 6: 18). The Grace Doctrine teachers are absolutely right in that no matter what we do (wrong), God will indeed forgive us IF we repent. However, God does not want us to abuse, missuse and take advantage of His grace and mercy. IF we insist on continuing in this way, God will allow us to be turned over to a reprobate mind (Romans 1: 28-32). When this happends, we lose our conviction. We get to the place were we can boldly step outside of God's will whenever we feel like it with no sense of guilt or remorse for doing it. We then get to the place where we can commit sin without feeling bad for it or being convicted of it. Since we're no longer being convicted in our spirits for doing wrong, we never ask for forgiveness, because we no longer see the need too. We no longer acknowledge or recognize our sinful deeds as sin, so we no longer approach the throne of grace to receive grace...or mercy! This is the part they (the Grace Doctrine teachers) are leaving out! God wants us to grow so much in our relationship with Him, that our desire to love Him supercedes our desire to sin (Romans 6: 1-23). God understands that we are faced with many temptation on a daily basis, but God also knows that He did not leave us defenseless against the temptation, but with every temptation, He has provided a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10: 13). God wants us as Christians to mature to a place in Him where we are able (and willing) to choose to walk through/ in the "way of ecsape" rather than falling into temptation.
So you see, according to how the Lord revealed it to me, The Great Falling Away is not so much of a physical fall, but an internal/ spiritual one. It's not so much that people will denounce God...or quit claiming Jesus Christ as their savior...or stop going to church (this is a part of it, but not the major focal point), however the major focal point, is that people will still be in church (holding offices, carrying titles, working in ministry...etc.), but it's the falling away of the heart from God. Still claiming Jesus, still confessing salvation, still professing their love for God, when actually (and in many cases unknowingly) they have fallen away from God in their hearts...proclaiming their love for God with their mouths, but their hearts are FAR from Him (Isaiah 29:13 & Mathew 15:7-9).
The Lord gave me this little illustration….A young man (we will call him Harry) and a young lady (we will call her Sally), are in a relationship together. Unfortunately, this is a one sided relationship or one sided love affair. Sally loves Harry with all of her heart. She is totally committed to him. She is completely faithful to him. She’s madly in love with Him. However, Harry has other women on the side. Although he claims Sally is his “main squeeze”, he has other love affairs on the side. Harry cares a whole lot about Sally; he doesn’t really love her though. He only loves what Sally can do for him. He loves how Sally cooks for him. He loves how Sally washes and folds his clothes. He loves how good Sally takes care of him and how good she makes him feel. He loves how Sally caters to his every need. He loves what Sally can do for him, but he doesn’t love Sally. In fact, Sally doesn’t hear from Harry until Harry needs something. If Harry doesn’t need anything, he doesn’t come by, call, text, email, or send her a message on Facebook……….And so finally, the Lord says, "the church doesn't love me anymore; they love what I can do for them. The church doesn't love me; they love the fact that I'm a way maker. They love the fact that I can heal their bodies when they get sick and afflicted. They love the fact that I'm a miracle worker, but they don't love me. They love the fact that I can pay their bills for them when they don’t have the money.” The Lord says, "The only time I hear from my church is when something bad happens or they fall on hard times or they need me to move on their behalf....they don't love me, they love my wondrous works." The Lord says, they kicked me out of my church, but they kept the blessings I gave them. They put me out of my church, but they kept the miracles I performed for them. They kept the ways that I made for them. They kept the healings that I wrought for them, but they pushed me out. They want the “blessings” (stuff), but not the “blesser” (The Lord). The Lord says, "I was beaten for my church...I took a crown of thorns for my church...I was pierced in the side for my church...I shed blood for my church...I hung on the cross for my church...I died for my church…I resurrected for my church”…The Lord says, "I WANT BACK IN MY CHURCH!!!!"
If we're not careful, we all can be in this position and could find ourselves falling away. NO ONE is exempt from this! We all must take inventory of our lives (1 Corinthians 10: 11-12). Examine ourselves to see if we've neglected God in anyway....to see if we've strayed away from Him in any manner. The only way to prevent ourselves from falling away, is to tie ourselves to the horns of the alter and seek His face, submerge ourselves in His word and hide His word deeeeeeep within our hearts, and get wrapped up, tied up and tangled all up in Jesus Christ and allow him to live on the inside of us! This is our only hope to survive The Great Falling Away. Please don't take this for granted and please don't take it lightly. We (the church) must search ourselves. Let's go before God with a repentant heart. Let's do our first work over again. Return to our first love (every last one of us in the Body of Christ). Go back to the old land mark (Jeremiah 6: 16). Let’s let God take us back to the place where we received Him. Let's go back to how we were when we first got saved. Let's rekindle the fire (our hunger) and renew the passion (our thirst) for God - not stuff! Let us turn to Him and repent for polluting the holy and precious things of God. Let us repent for putting His blessings before Him and God will restore us (the church) and put us back in a place of purity (Isaiah 55: 7)..........TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS…(Hebrews 3: 15 & Psalms 95: 7-8).
He that hath an ear let him ear what The Spirit is saying to THE CHURCH (Revelation 2: 29)!!!........
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