When will it happen? When will the church wake up to realize that we stand on the precipice of total disaster. Evil men (and women) have crept in aware and have preached ANOTHER GOSPEL. It is a gospel that appeals to the flesh and subjugates men and women of God to the whims and desires of less-than-spiritual people.
As I travel throughout the land I am reminded of my travels in Europe some thirty-years-ago. In many of the cities the churches have become museums and monuments to men and women of by-gone days. With their ornate architecture and polished floors and furniture, they really are something to see. The steeples once were to tallest buildings in the city...a testimony that God is above all human effort and the ONLY hope for mankind. Now? Well, now they stand in the shadows of skyscrapers dedicated to unbridled capitalism.
As I travel throughout Central and South America, I see mosques popping up, standing as the tallest structures in some cities. Even after a long court battle, in my own State of Tennessee a very large mosque is now open in the city of Murfreesboro...a city that is the geographical center of my state.
We are told to sit down and shut up. We are told to not pray in public...not at schools, not at governmental buildings and God forbid you should try to preach a sermon on a street corner. In a land with the First Amendment of the Constitution guaranteeing the right to worship as you wish...more and more roadblocks to the Gospel are being thrown in our paths. Whether it is the need for permits to preach in public, or choking city, county and state codes when you try to build a new facility. Too many of the government agencies use the law of eminent domain to just take what they want...not just from citizens, but ESPECIALLY the church.
All the while, preaching name it and claim it, blab it and grab it, sow it and mow it, confess and possess it so that you will be rich! Oh, I almost forgot, it ALL starts when you send YOUR money to them so they can fly first class, stay in five-star hotels and eat duck dinners....after all, they are "entitled," because they are teaching you great faith.
Don't get me wrong. I believe that if you have faith, God answers prayer...but I don't think He intended His word to be manipulated by huckster "Elmer Gantry" types who think that gain is godliness.
ENOUGH!
God is bringing judgement to this world...and He will start with the church. IT IS TIME FOR REVIVAL! WAKE UP CHURCH!
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