Many Earthly Shepherds Lack Discernment!

The lack of discernment amongst the earthly shepherds is frightening. Some churches are now so huge, that it is impossible for the pastors to intimately know their flock. You can’t know a person, by merely attending the church building with them; you must fellowship out side of the church setting. Neither can you know a person via the internet. It is easy to hide behind a microphone in some of the chat rooms, where no one sees your daily walk, no one truly knows you. It is easy to blog about the things of God, you can claim to be anything over the internet. It’s another thing entirely for a person to see your daily walk.

I know of a pastor, who calls forward a woman to pray for others, who is living a life laden with sin. All this is done before her unsaved family members, whom she preaches to about their sin. This woman is not a "new" Christian, this woman has claimed to be "saved" for years, yet she lives like the devil himself. She bares no fruit of the Holy Spirit in her life at all. I use her as an example just to show you, the lack of discernment amongst leadership. I have seen many a pastor put sinners in positions of leadership, or commend them within congregations, and consider them pillars of the church, when they don't even love God.

Now you may say, "Well, Jesus had pity on the woman at the well." Yes He did, and he told her that He did not condemn her, but that she was to, "Go and sin no more". Jesus came to bring sinners to REPENTANCE...That means that they are to turn from their sins, not continue to live in them .

This particular woman I mentioned, is not the first example I have personally witnessed over the years. It is so sad, because not only is she lost, she is a huge stumbling block to her own unsaved family, and she is in danger of hell fire. I have personally witnessed her sinful behavior. Her pastor either has no discernment at all, or he knows nothing about church discipline, which we discussed in yesterdays blog. This woman causes confusion with in the body of the church she attends, because the saved and unsaved alike, who know this woman's life, observe this treatment of her by the pastor, and are confused, and some babes in Christ have even grown bitter.

A little leaven can encroach upon a congregation and cause great harm, as can a root of bitterness.

It is a sad thing that many times when church leaders are told of the danger that a soul is in, they are labeled a hater of the brethren, or a dissembler, or they are dismissed as to judgmental. I find it no coincidence, that when one speaks against the sin of homosexuality, one is labeled a homosexual hater, and when one speaks out against the false Roman Catholic doctrine, one is labeled a Catholic hater-neither is the Truth. Those who love The Truth, share it because they love the sinner.

Anyone who is bound by sin, has no place being asked publicly, to pray for others, or be put in a position of leadership within the body. Just because a person may make a public display of so called "Spirituality" by speaking in tongues, or seem knowledgeable of the things of God, is no reason to believe their witness. Saints we must try the spirits, that includes the spirits of people. Tongues, is not a measure of spirituality. The fruit in ones life is the measure of “spirituality”. This type of person needs prayer, and council, and rebuke for their life style, not acceptance of it, not justification of it. They need to be put out of the congregation if they refuse to turn from their sin.

Many within the church body have the ability to fool the undiscerning pastors, but they cannot fool God.

I once attended a church, where a man’s sexual sins were covered, he ended up being murdered. I have attended a church where a blind eye is turned to every sin that the family who runs the church does, and the true saints are condemned for the smallest of things. But not to be concerned saints, for God shall judge, and when we see His judgment we will understand perfectly why it has come.

I have witnessed churches condone Masonic members, as board members, and leaders in the churches. I have seen absolute denial, whilst these Masonic members say, “Oh we don’t go to meetings any more”, but they boast outside of the churches of the times they still flash their Masonic rings to police officers to get out of traffic tickets…. Many pastors refuse to speak against the Masonic lodge at all, they are perfectly happy to remain ignorant as to the doings of the Masonic lodge and its members.

Many Shepherds are blind saints, they are blind! And we know saints that if the blind lead the blind they shall both fall into the ditch, into the eternal abyss.

I have witnessed many dreadful things within the body over the years, and it is heart breaking. To condone sin, is not doing the sinner a favor, it is not showing love, it is setting the sinner up for a curse from Almighty God. I thank God that He has chastised me and given me space over the years to repent of my sins, but the days are growing shorter, and it is past time to repent, and turn from our wicked ways saints.

Again I tell you those who refuse to rebuke the sinner, and those who condone sin, are in sin themselves.... but beware also those who love to rebuke the sinner -when they have unrepentant sin in their own lives GOD is NO FOOL !!!

His Sheep Know His Voice!

Was there discipline in the early church, or was everyone left to their sins, that God may clean them up when He got ready?

How was discipline handled within the early church?

If there is one thing that I have noticed over the years since I got saved, it is the fact that there are many teachers, and saints who conveniently over look certain scriptures, because quite frankly they just don’t fit their doctrine or agenda. (I am not referring to those babes who are yet ignorant of the full truth of God’s Word.)

Let’s look through 1 Corinthians 5: 1-13
1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
2. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

There is no longer any sorrow for sin, only excuses for it, there are no tears of repentance shed, instead there is stench filled pride. It is nothing for people to shack up and go to church together every Sunday, completely unashamed, with no one saying a word, because there is more than enough sin to go around. We cannot condemn sin in the life of another, when there is sin in our own lives, even thieves have a code of conduct as do sinners.

3. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5. To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

In other words such a person is better off delivered into the destroying hands of Satan, that they might be brought to their knees and cry out in repentance before God, and receive salvation.

Many love to pull the "Judge not" card, to further excuse their sin, they are in jeopardy, because they do not desire to forsake their sin, they want to cling to it!

6. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Many can be affected adversely, by the sins of others, what ever those sins may be. This is how luke warmness sets into a congregation. Some may say, well a little of this or a little of that doesn't really hurt. This is the same lie that Satan perpetrated on Eve, "Thou shalt not surely die”….Satan is a liar, and all those who hide and excuse sin amongst the brethren are of their father the devil.

A Open Note to the Earthly Shepherds

What do His sheep require of you Pastor?
To give us the truth, to help keep us on the straight and the narrow path.
Don’t tell us were ok, when we know we are not.
Don’t tell us you are speaking for Him, because we know "His" voice.

Saints of God, we really don’t need anyone to tell us we are sinning, because if we belong to God we know when we are sinning, because the Holy Spirit convicts us. We don’t need to seeks man’s council looking to be told, “Oh your fine, God understands your weaknesses, He overlooks your sin, He knows your just struggling along.”
Saints, there is no more time for that attitude, the Lord is soon to return. We are soon to meet our maker, whether by death or by being alive and remaining at His return.

We might not want it, but we need someone who says, “Look I know you’re struggling, but you can get the victory in Christ, let’s pray together, let’s see what the Word has to say about your situation, because you know if you keep on this path the end will not be good.”
We are commanded to exhort one another daily, and even the more so as we see the day of the Lord approaching.

7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Covetousness is rife within the church, idolatry is also, and railing, families are in turmoil, and drunkenness is increasing, so are other addictions, and extortion is clear from the pulpit to the pews.

The sipping saints, who set the example to those who may stumble into alcoholism, will be held accountable before God. It is better to crucify the flesh and never take a drink, than to set a bad example for one who may fall into alcoholism.

Millions of church goers are on Prozac or Valium or some other mind numbing drug...anything to take them out of their present reality-the "Take me to my happy place" mentality, none are looking to Christ for deliverance. None are looking to Christ to be their sustainer their all in all, their deliverer. We are in a sorry state.

Look saints, if we faint in the day of adversity our strength is small. Let me tell you saints, few leaders leaders today have the guts to tell you the truth, because they want to be your friend, they want your money they want your adulation, they have their own agenda. Make no mistake they shall be judged.

Having been a sinner, I know the fact and the reason that anyone takes a drink, let’s be real, it is to get a buzz, to escape reality, it is a sedative. It should be for those in intense grief or those dying. Let’s not lie about these things. It is better to abstain from such things, lest we fall into condemnation. It is much easier to take the world into the church and incorporate it, than it is to leave the world behind.

Now I know full well that I shall take a beating from some, who will call me legalistic, that is fine, because I will not stand with you before God, and tell you I loved you, without having proved it to you on earth first.

Am I become your enemy because I tell you the TRUTH?

To borrow a phrase "Truth is hate to those who HATE the TRUTH!
When we love someone we tell them the truth, if they do not accept that truth, then that is on their own head, but you are not guilty of their blood on your hands.

12. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
13. But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

I tell you of a truth saints, that one who makes excuses for the sins of others, has unrepentant knowing sin in their life, and God will sooner or later expose that sin for all to see.
Hate sin saints, and keep repentant before God, bring your bodies into subjection, and resist the devil and he shall flee from you.

Yes God does do the cleaning of us, the purifying of us, but He needs a willing vessel.

We can be that willing vessel, or we can come the hard way, and saints I don't want to have to witness anyone, come the hard way, or be cast out.

May we all continue to grow in the Grace and the Kowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ!

The Lord Hears The Cries of Those Who Are His

The Lord so hears the cries of them that are His, His ears are always open to their prayers. He answers their prayers in ways thought by man to be impossible. He never ceases to amaze me in all He does.

I so thank all the dear saints who have interceeded for us these past few months, may the Lord richly bless you with heavenly blessings.

I have been standing in awe these last couple of months as I have witnessed first hand the miracle working power of the Most High God. I wish I could relate verbatim what I have seen take place, but I can not. Trust me though when I can share some things with you, it will blow you away as it has me...God is still saving souls and God is still working miracles on their behalf.

God always roots and grounds those whom He chooses to draw unto Himself....We don't choose Him ...He chooses us...that we might go and bring forth much fruit for the Kingdom of God. That we might bring Glory and Honor to Him!

There is no comfort like the Comfort of the Lord, there is no strength like the Strength of the Lord, there is no love like the Love of the Lord...

He is able to do abundantly and exceedly above all we could ask or think.

Be Ready, For In An Hour That You Think Not....

Russians to Mount Nuclear Attack On American Coastal Cities

The Most important thing in all this saints of God is that our hearts be clean before God, no matter what day or hour He calls us home, what matters is that we are ready to meet Him.

Vladimir Putin, pictured here on his horse, flexing his muscles for all to see.

Our government sleeps and sees no harm in the Russian subs currently doing maneuvers off our eastern coast, after all we are in a time of peace with Russia.

Get ready Saints, and stay ready, may our vessels be filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit...

Even so - Come Lord Jesus!!!!

We Are To Look Up Saints!!!!

I just checked Drudge for the daily news headlines, and if one were to gage ones mood for the day from those headlines, and if I wasn't a child of God, I (according to The Drudge Report today) probably would be one of the ... 27million Americans on anti-depressants

But we saints are not to keep our eyes glued to this earth, and all the circumstances that surround us...but rather we are to set our hearts on Jesus Christ our soon coming King....We are to remember the indignities, the injustice, the cruelty, the rejection, the loneliness that He suffered setting us the example that we might not faint..... that we might know the fellowship of his suffering...that we understand that we are experiencing a small taste of what He had to suffer for us....We are to seek God, not drown our minds and our souls with anti-depressants.....

Look Satan is in the business of deceiving even the very elect of God, and he has a plethora of ways in which to do this...Depression is one of his ways... He attacks the mind, He attacks our Faith, he attacks our Hope, he attacks our confidence in God...He plays dirty...he doesn't play "fair" we have got to come to understand just who the enemy is... and that it is he who is working to destroy us...but Christ is praying for us that our Faith fail not....

God is Able to do all things and do them well....Stand Fast Saint of God....

If Man Goes To War With God, Whom Do You Suppose Is Going To Win?

All the calling out to man in the world, is not going to change what God is allowing to take place in our nation....He shall bring down the evil...and all those who exhalt themselves before His eyes. It is our place to call out to Him not to the congress.....We need to humble ourselves before Him not our government...and we need to turn from our wicked ways....

Blood Shed Follows Blood Shed America!!!! Warning Graphic Truth!

First it was murder the least amongst us, those who do not have a voice, the babies, we will just all turn our heads, and pretend it's not happening, after all it's legal, and they are a tad inconvenient right now, lets see what was one of the mantras ahhh yes I remember... "Why burden society with unwanted children, all children should be wanted children."...hummm

Now it is murder the least amongst us those who are to feeble to have a voice-the elderly....humm how long is it going to take the most liberal amongst us to convince the population that, that's alright to? Lets imagine the mantras, "If the elderly are not able to fend for themselves why burden society",
"Why prolong their anguish, lets be loving and put them out of their misery!"
"It will be painless, just like abortion, ....we can just inject them and they will just pass on peacefully".....hummm

If you find the depiction of partial birth abortion offensive, sorry, but it is Truth, it is fact, and it is what we have tolerated in this country and gone to our "happy place" to avoid doing anything about! Abortions the majority of the time, are done for purely selfish motives, not because of rape or incest but for convenience.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for you America!!!

Because the majority of people in this country stood by while millions upon millions of babies were led to their slaughter-Now the angel of death -via our president and our government is going to come for us, the elderly. Now they will kill the elderly for convenience sake!

From the cradle to the grave-the government will rule as if it were God!

Think about it for a second....when those, who will be slaughtered under the presidents new medical plan, were able 20-30 years ago, did they cry out against the abomination of abortion-for the most part -NO-now the angel of death shall come for them, because when God called them to action, they would not listen, they turned their backs!

Proverbs 24:11-12
11. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
12. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Will there be a pay day America?-Yes there will-God shall recompense all the evil upon the heads of those who pursue it.

If you consider this harsh, yes it is harsh, but it is the Truth, you may stick you head in the sand when they take your mother, or grandmother, but you will give account in the day of judgment...for America you know the truth, and you have turned your backs on God,

....May God show Mercy yet on America!

The following word the Lord gave me was first posted here in Oct. 2007, but it bears reading if you have the time : Thursday, October 11, 2007

Post script 2009:
The government would now rule us from the cradle to the grave: Now our president would come for the old people, those whom he considers less productive members of society-and murder them. Blood shed follows blood shed...The country will again run with the blood of the innocent, and God will avenge the blood upon the heads of those who shed it!

You might check these words as well: Wake up America, Wake up Church, Word from the Lord