I appreciate all my brothers and sisters in Christ that love me enough to tell me the truth! Agape’ love is the pinnacle of the types of loves. We cannot Agape’ others until we receive Agape’ love, and return Agape’ love back to God. That is what Jesus showed when He loved what His Father loved and hated what His Father hated. He came only to do the Father’s will. The world’s perversity of love has entered the church and because we have mutated the Jesus of the scripture, He no longer is offensive to the sin nature. The 21st century, American church walks in the ‘eros’ love of the flesh. Therefore, it seems like very few true salvations are occurring today. Mostly we ask people to add Jesus into their repertoire of life. A mental note is made and they continue in life the same direction they were going.
We see a collage of spiritism within the Church that includes New Age and paganism. And holiness and righteousness are nowhere to be found. Jesus becomes a condiment to our lives rather than our LIFE! The Church has forgotten that mankind is evil and only through the submission to Jesus and dying to ourselves daily do we receive eternal life. Everyone is so saturated with their own sinfulness that the churches no longer preach sin, repentance and the Good News that follows these steps. No one wants to deal with their own sin or ungodliness, so we ‘should’ accept’ everyone else’s.
Problem with that is where then do we set the line??? If sexual perversity lifestyles have to be excepted than why not pedophilia or rapists or abusers? Maybe it’s only a matter of time! We see it with the growing acceptance of drugs.
No wonder Jesus said He would have to return before none would be found worthy. The spiritual and emotional shallowness of the culture, especially within the churches has mutated the Gospel into a self-help, secular-humanistic, fluid self-defining opinion instead of The Truth that sets the captives free. Therefore the ‘enlightened’ gospel being propagated is sterile and barren in its eternal impact. Maybe because you can only give what you have received. The Gospel destroys sin, it brings hope, it releases the shackles of the bondages and so much more.
People in our culture and the world are lost in their confusion and sin-saturation because the devil has already shamed them, and they are seeking any type of remedy or ‘fix’ that will make the pain go away. Ultimately, He steals, kills and destroys them as we see in our culture of debauchery. And the church doesn’t love them enough to tell them the Truth. Shame on us and our shallow faith.
The Agape’ love that we receive should passionately drive us to share it with others in the same way we worship God with it: in Spirit and in Truth!
Rise up church and be the antidote to the infusion of wickedness and destruction that is escalating around us! This is why the prophets of old were so powerful. They stood upon the Truth, and God then could powerfully work through them. Right now the churches have embraced sin, and thus have a form of godliness but deny (its power) the Gospel’s power of transformation.
People are being destroyed for their lack of knowledge and vision of God’s Agape’ love. People in the Church are being destroyed by the enemy’s tactics of depression, shame, guilt, confusion, etc. Therefore, they have little to offer those on the outside. We must freely receive before we can freely give! We all go through rough times, but so many in the church have come to believe this powerless Gospel message that they seek out man’s wisdom rooted in books and educational methods. We use powerless ministries and business models of growing the church, but it remains shallow in its spiritual maturity and depth. We need to quit caving into the peer pressure of the world, and start bowing to the name of Jesus Christ and His methods of the Kingdom. We cannot both bow to the fear of man and also bow in our fear to God. We cannot have two masters. What we fear, is what we worship!
Be strong and courageous for our Lord, our God is with us!
It’s time for us to enter into the Promise Land of our future and defeat the giants trying to dispose of His plans for us to go into all of the world making disciples!
Rise up and change the culture before the culture changes us!
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