Seven Mountains to Conquer

Seeking Truth

I've had some remarks about some of my articles from some of you. You are all free to express your opinions to me. I do not edit them, but keep them just for record.
I had one lady with an obvious Assembly of God, end times slant tell me what the abomination of desolation is. Of course there was no room in her opinion for other thinking.

Since there are many who now teach the end times in a similar fashion to mine, I would direct those of you who are brave enough to consider that your church's doctrine may need challenged, should look up two names on the Internet and study what they say.

If you are really seeking truth:

Bill Britain and Mark Hanby.

Amusement or Entertainment

An opinion:

God's people need times of release. The good times promoted by others through music or drama, or just friendships, and good works, in church or out, we can call entertainment. I think entertainment can be a needed diversion from the seriousness of living in this day. When I watch tennis or do something I consider entertaining, I am always aware of my circumstance, and that of the world around me. I just choose to focus on something else for a short while.

Amusement is something different. To amuse is to cause to lose focus on the true. Similar words are gape, idle, absorb thoughts. If I am being amused by some one, that one is in some way in charge of my mind. Amusement carries the sense of losing ones responsibility for a time. I want nothing to do with that.

Love

We must not let the cultural wars we fight cause us to lose our Love. Love is still the greatest force in the universe. Against it there is no law.

The Religious Spirit and Fallen Leaders

We see the religious spirit at work in this day in the church’s treatment of so called “fallen leaders”. It is amazing to see people in the church being ostracized by their religious community because of divorces and/or relationships that are not sanctioned by some presbytery.

In the past I took a hard line concerning divorce and marriage. I did so because the word says, “God hates divorce”. Yet the fact is that God-Jah, wrote Israel-His people-a certificate of divorcement.

One of the great failures of the church in this day is in dealing with offenses, sin and restoration. There is not greater evidence of this than in the way we treat divorced and the divorcing. Usually the sin of the church against these people is far greater than any reason the divorce might have occurred. This is because the church of this nation is almost without fail controlled totally by a religious spirit and by Baal. I’m not just talking about the chosen frozen. I speak here of the tongue talking…Lord praising with their lips, but far away in their hearts, Laodocian mess called “Church” in the USA.

In the future I intend to write on Emmaus Teacher on this topic. Stay tuned…

Simple Truth

A simple teaching, and to be considered greatly, is that God is found wherever we repent from our ways. This is often not church as it is thought of, by most who would call themselves "Christian".

Church tends to slip into Religion. Faith in God often is not palatable to church folks. They tend to like the ways they walk in better then the "Turned around repentant life" and walk. Hope in man is shifting sand.

Hope in Christ.

Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Some church is good, some bad, some life, some death. Identify with the Christ first. It is good to simply be called: "Christian".

But so Am I

This morning I'm thinking about dealings with people. We are no doubt all blind in some areas. But our hope is "the mind of Christ". Maturity is not always the out come of trial, but I think without trials, we will never be fully mature.

First, I think of a man who watches religious TV, Religiously. He wouldn't miss Chuck Stanley. But he finds it no problem to skate all of Chuck's teaching and abuse his wife, both physically and verbally.

Secondly, I think of a friend who speaks a good confession in Christ, but constantly disobeys truth. She is quick to point out my times of wavering faith, while not seeing her own bondage.

Thirdly, I think of a friend who almost always shifts blame, on others for his lack of integrity.

These three people are all in life crises, either financially or spiritually or both. When I am around them I usually feel evil. Yet, each one confesses Christ as Lord. Faith is the key ingredient we all struggle with.

For so am I, in struggle with consistency of faith. So do I, fall short of the Glory. So do I, sin.

I am happy to have a friend called Jesus. I am happy for them as well. For He is our hope and victory over every fallen part of our life!

2Cr 2:14 Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.