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Saturday, May 12, 2007
As I read in the OT I think I understand why so many teachers and leaders say it is of no consequence to us today!! As you read thru it you see the same things happening today in what they call the church. You see the kings of Israel bringing the religions of their enemies, sometime to avoid battle and sometime because they had become involved with the women of the enemies. Whatever the reason God was not pleased and brought judgment upon them. For whatever reason the leaders of today seem to feel it’s alright to blend in with a society gone mad!! One can only wonder how and where we have gone astray but as you look around it’s plain to see. As we moved to bigger buildings and more and more programs to entice people into these buildings we also had to keep the money flowing to finance these projects. Once again what seemed like the “work of the Lord” turned out to be the “work of man”. The one glaring difference I see between the OT and the NT is that we each have the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. The problem then becomes “why isn’t that happening”?? Could it be that the leaders of today like the leaders of the past are afraid of losing control?? That was the problem thru out history. The movement of the Holy Spirit took hold of some people and it was flowing. At some point men became afraid it would get out of control and began making rules and claiming their way was the only way. If you disagreed you were run off at the least or put to death at the worst. Today we aren’t allowed to put those in disagreement to death but we can surely tell enough lies about them to discredit anything they say. The problem is that those that are truly walking under the direction of the Holy Spirit can’t be swayed by all of these lies. The Holy Spirit continues to lead them into all truth even if it disagrees with the traditions that they have been told were from God just for that select group and if you failed to stick with them your salvation may even be id doubt. That in it’s self always seemed strange to me because most of these groups taught that “once save always saved” so how could you possibly lose your salvation by going with another group??
Christian leaders today insist [once again the wide brush] that nothing that is happening in the world has anything to do with God’s judgment on an unbelieving world. I assume they are attempting to avoid panic in their clubs [they are more like clubs than churches] and allow their flock to go in search of the real truth. Why would God bring judgment on our nation?? Look around at only what passes as the body of Christ. It’s really hard to tell them apart from those of the world. We not only purse the ways of the world [who do you suppose is in charge of all that?] we bring them into the church in hopes of watering down the gospel enough that it will attract more people into our clubs. Once they are there we begin to adopt more of their ways to keep them there. Check out the scripture and see how God deals with those that attempt to do something for Him but use the ways of man rather than the ways He has laid down. You may be rather shocked!! You might want to start in 1 Chronicles 13 and deal with that story. It will take a little study to understand the problem. If you get stuck let me know and I’ll provide you with some hints to keep you going!!!

What say you???