God is Calling the Church to Repentance!

God is Calling the Church to Repentance!

 

             The Spirit of God is saying that the Body of Christ is constipated, without a movement.  He is saying that we must get rid of the waste, in order to be free from our spiritual state of constipation.  How do we get rid of the waste?  True repentance is the spiritual laxative or lubricant that will cause a spiritual movement in the Body.  Repentance alone will set us free from sinful waste.  Yet, God is saying that so often we come before Him with hypocrisy, lies, and lip service, but not true repentance.  When we cry out for mercy and truly repent, we will experience a break through.  Therefore, we must let go and let God have His way.  

            God is not just calling one, but all to repentance, because every member is constipated in one area or another of their lives.  God is saying, "Come as you are.  Don't try to repent on your own, but seek Me, and I will repent through you."  The Holy Spirit teaches us all things.  He will show us the areas where sin is lurking in the crevices of our hearts.  The Word of God declares, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”  (KJV, Jeremiah 17:9)  Saints of God, we sin consciously and unconsciously in our thoughts, actions, motives, and attitudes every day.  Therefore, let us seek the face of God, and repent individually and corporately, so that we can live free of spiritual constipation.  Only then will we experience the freeness and fullness of the Holy Spirit in our personal and corporate lives.   

 

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The Sinful State of Man

The Sinful State of Man

            The Word of the Lord came to me saying, “Many years ago, the sinful state of man came up before Me and angered My Spirit, and I destroyed the Earth by water.  And again, the sinful state of man is before me NOW, but this time the Earth will not be destroyed by water.  The very elements will be on fire.”  God allowed me to see the fire like an iron grill that I cannot adequately describe with human words.  When He showed me the grill, He had me to look up and see in the Spirit.  Then He asked me, “Who can escape this?  Where will they run to?  None would escape this.”

II Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (KJV)

            God is calling the Church to repentance!  The wickedness of man is before God right now.  He is not only speaking of the sinful world, but the very church that should be representing God to the world has nothing to offer the world but lies, hypocrisy, and deceit.  The world is looking at us, and we have nothing to offer them, because the church lives a lie and pretence.  They use the Word as a shield to hide and cover their sins.  We ask God to fill the church and we go out and bring people into the church, in order to fill the church pews.  Yet, we repent and live a lie.

Isaiah 1:13 – “Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.” (KJV)

            We use the word repentance as an excuse.  We come with tears in our eyes and speak lies as we come before the Lord with vain oblations.  This is not the time to offer sacrifices on the altar.  The reason God’s Son came into the world was to become the Final Sacrifice for our sins.  God is calling the church universal to repentance!  He is speaking to the saved and unsaved.  His coming is soon.  No man knows the day nor the hour of His Coming.  Are we ready for His coming?  Do you think you’ll have time to fast and pray before He comes?  Just like a thief comes unexpectantly, Jesus will come as He promised in His Word.   

1 John 1:9-10 - “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (KJV)

            God wants us to confess our sins and to be truly sorrowful for the wrong that we have committed against Him.  God is tired of our vain oblations.  He has instructed us to come as we are, wounded and broken, because He is the Healer and everything we are looking for.  He doesn’t care about the nature of our sin or how long we have lived in our sin.  He only wants us to come, and to come now!  When we repent and get our lives in readiness, then we can go to the world with the message of Hope and Salvation.  God is saying that the Church needs to be saved.  We can’t go to the world with our sinful baggage.  We can’t go to them when the same demons in them are in us, as well.  God will allow those demons to bring exposure to us.  We are in the world, but we don’t have to be of the world.  Even some in the world try to live a clean life.  They are trying to be honest and live a life of integrity.  Yet, some in the Church aren’t even trying! 

Leviticus 19:2 – “Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.” (KJV)

            God is speaking especially to the shepherds of the flock.  He has commanded us “Be ye holy as I am holy.”  In the Church, we talk holiness, but living holiness is a completely different matter.  We need to step out of tradition and religion.  We sin so often and come short of the glory of God.  We speak of the traditions of our church denomination saying, “This one said this, and this one did that…”  That may have worked in that time, but do you know what God is saying and requires of you now? 

            Sin started in the Garden with Adam and Eve, but Jesus Christ came that we could be cleansed and made whole.  The veil in the Temple was rent.  We no longer need to offer a ram or pigeon dove as a sacrifice for our sins. Now we can come boldly before the throne of Grace because Jesus, the Lamb of God was sacrificed once for all.

Isaiah 1:18-20 – “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:  But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” (KJV)

            Saints of God, we can be cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb.  God is calling the Church Universal to repentance.  He is calling us to get our lives in order.  Do you know who you are in Christ?  Do you know your position, so that you can stand in your position?  Get your life right, not imitating or mimicking the traditions of others, but be who God has called you to be in Him.  God is saying that the church is so backslidden…  So backslidden…  So backslidden.  “To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” (KJV, Hebrews 4:7)

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