WARNING FOR THE CHURCH
WARNING THE CHURCH
Church, if you want to grow, prosper, and for the Lord to bless you then there are a few things that you need to know and be willing to do. It’s time to come out from among them and be separate.
2 Corinthians 6:17 –
17 Therefore
“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”
Church, we are called to be holy, a special people to the Lord and yet today many churches continue moving farther away from the truth of the Word of God in exchange for looking more like society and the current culture with the common excuse that that’s how you draw people in. It’s time to stop exchanging the truth for lies, promotion of idolatry, and false popularity that will get you nothing more than
‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ (Matt. 7:23)
You see, as it says in Jeremiah 8:7 -
“Even the stork in the heavens
Knows her appointed times;
And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow
Observe the time of their coming.
But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
The church and world have been in a time of judgment but many don’t understand or refuse to acknowledge it as such. Churches and society were brought to almost a complete standstill but many tried to push on bent on continuing on in the same old way: Their own way. These past few years should have been a time of great repentance and seeking God to change us and bring us out brand new. Instead, it’s been “I can’t wait until things get back to normal.” Normal is what helped bring us to this place. Complacency, sin, false traditions of man, refusal to hear the truth, repent and turn.
Church if you won’t hear and turn you’ll just be heaping more judgment on yourself and you’ll have chosen the consequences for yourself. It won’t be God doing it to you because He’s been sending out warnings for years and trying to get people’s attention.
One of the greatest mistakes the church is making is parading false idols through the church and claiming that they’re just a little “harmless fun.” We’ve become so desensitized to it that we don’t even realize it’s happening anymore.
When does this happen? At Christmas time for one. The church allows Santa Clause to be paraded through the sanctuary while at the same time preaching the true message of our Savior Jesus.
Children see these messages coming from some of their biggest (or from those who are supposed to be their biggest) moral compasses in life. Their pastor and their parents. These children are bombarded with movies and television shows telling them that if they believe in Santa if they believe in the “magic of Christmas” then anything is possible.
They’re also being told about the baby in a manger (Whom they also can’t see) but they’re supposed to believe in Him and He will save them and will do miracles in their life.
Here are two figures, neither of which they can see, but with a similar feeling message. The child(ren)’s pastor and parents whom they are supposed to be able to trust present both stories and imagery in the same setting, the church, so they must both be true, right?
A little while down the road these children come to find that Santa isn’t real. He doesn’t come down your chimney and bring you presents in a magical sleigh led by flying reindeer every year. So they put 2 and 2 together and come to the conclusion that since their pastor and parents lied to them about Santa, then Jesus must just be a lie too. Not only do they now disbelieve the message that can save their souls, but they also have niggling doubts in the back of their heads about whether anything you pastor and you too parents tell them is true. You’ve become liars.
Similar stories to this one are in fact how quite a few people became atheists. These lies aren’t just harmless fun. They cost children their eternal souls, maybe your child’s.
Pastor, parents make a decision right now to stop allowing these lies in your churches and homes. If you don’t turn from mixing these lies and idolatry with the truth then you will someday be held accountable for these stumbling blocks that are being put in the way of these children.
John 8:44
44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Stop mixing the lies with the truth and false idols with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. No lie is a harmless lie. Stop walking in the ways of the devil and return to the Lord. Then you will be blessed and grow as a church and individually.