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"Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil" (Hebrews 5:12-14).
I don't know where you all live, but I live in America, and I can tell you without any exaggeration that America is spiritually and morally in a very high state of emergency. Someone sent me the following today by a Pastor Darren Smith:
"About a month ago during a time of great trial in my walk Jesus the Lord spoke to me about being a true follower of Him, not a nominal believer but a true follower. The word I heard was that America is the hardest place in the world to be a believer. This came as a shock to me, for I had often thought and commented on how easy we have it here. But what the Lord opened to me is how hard it is to walk with Him in this land of comfort. It is so easy to be distracted by the cares of this world in our nation, in fact so easy that we have created our own American doctrine to make us feel better about our lack of devotion to Jesus."
There's a reason I always spell the word christian with a small c. Because there is no Jesus Christ in it. On this thread and forums, we can get mature and be mature, or we can stay in a selfish character, and I can get silly, ridiculous, and cocky. For American christians, it's way past time to grow up, mature, repent, and retrace the way to the right Path (Jeremiah 6:16). In America, people everywhere are suffering and dying because American christians are too self-centered to care. This level of immaturity is not the way things are meant to be.
I don't know where you all live, but I live in America, and I can tell you without any exaggeration that America is spiritually and morally in a very high state of emergency. Someone sent me the following today by a Pastor Darren Smith:
"About a month ago during a time of great trial in my walk Jesus the Lord spoke to me about being a true follower of Him, not a nominal believer but a true follower. The word I heard was that America is the hardest place in the world to be a believer. This came as a shock to me, for I had often thought and commented on how easy we have it here. But what the Lord opened to me is how hard it is to walk with Him in this land of comfort. It is so easy to be distracted by the cares of this world in our nation, in fact so easy that we have created our own American doctrine to make us feel better about our lack of devotion to Jesus."
There's a reason I always spell the word christian with a small c. Because there is no Jesus Christ in it. On this thread and forums, we can get mature and be mature, or we can stay in a selfish character, and I can get silly, ridiculous, and cocky. For American christians, it's way past time to grow up, mature, repent, and retrace the way to the right Path (Jeremiah 6:16). In America, people everywhere are suffering and dying because American christians are too self-centered to care. This level of immaturity is not the way things are meant to be.
All I can say is pray, pray and pray some more for America. There are seeds of hope, the recent SCOTUS decision being one of them. But, our enemy never sleeps, and his people are filled with a sinful rage that is not easily quenched. We must see to it that we are salty salt and bright light, or our great country will collapse into rotting darkness.