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Most of the time I try to post things that are encouraging, loving or fun because we all need that in our lives. But today...I’m just not feelin’ it. I’m frustrated. So very frustrated.
The world looks at the Church and doesn’t see much going on. Some of us know that a great move of God is coming and we are impatient for it. But some who call themselves christians are all too willing to water down the scriptures until they are nothing but milk toast because they don’t want to offend the world.
I Peter 2: 4 As you come to Him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to Him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in Him
will never be put to shame.”
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
“The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
8 and,
“A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”
They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Jesus told it like it was. He didn’t water it down, not even when He stood before Pilate. ESPECIALLY then... If we are truly His followers, can we do less??
Sometimes we take a nibble of the scriptures and it doesn’t go down easy. But out of our loving obedience, we hang in there, finally swallow it and are changed.
Revelation 3: 15-16 - I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Am I the only one who feels like vomiting when I hear time and time again that we should toss this or that out of the scriptures because “our culture has changed”???
Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
That scripture is either true or it’s not. Those who know it to be true will hold fast to the teaching of our Lord, no matter what “society” thinks. Might, indeed, does not make right. It was the mob who demanded Christ’s crucifixion and set Barabbas free, was it not?
Hold fast to the teachings of our Lord. He is Truth and He is Light and He is Lord and He is God.
Revelation 3:11-13 - I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
The world looks at the Church and doesn’t see much going on. Some of us know that a great move of God is coming and we are impatient for it. But some who call themselves christians are all too willing to water down the scriptures until they are nothing but milk toast because they don’t want to offend the world.
I Peter 2: 4 As you come to Him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to Him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in Him
will never be put to shame.”
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
“The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
8 and,
“A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”
They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Jesus told it like it was. He didn’t water it down, not even when He stood before Pilate. ESPECIALLY then... If we are truly His followers, can we do less??
Sometimes we take a nibble of the scriptures and it doesn’t go down easy. But out of our loving obedience, we hang in there, finally swallow it and are changed.
Am I the only one who feels like vomiting when I hear time and time again that we should toss this or that out of the scriptures because “our culture has changed”???
Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
That scripture is either true or it’s not. Those who know it to be true will hold fast to the teaching of our Lord, no matter what “society” thinks. Might, indeed, does not make right. It was the mob who demanded Christ’s crucifixion and set Barabbas free, was it not?
Hold fast to the teachings of our Lord. He is Truth and He is Light and He is Lord and He is God.
Revelation 3:11-13 - I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
