The following few paragraphs are from a November 2017 post. The purpose of this post.....and others that were like it....was to point to a....winnowing....that will be coming to the church. Evangelicals are going to have to make a decision now that Donald Trump is gone.....will they continue to walk a balancing line with politics and their Christian faith....(and folks that word 'balancing' is generous....for it has been about 99% politics and 1% Christ)....or will we become a peculiar people that knows....and pleads....that Jesus Christ will soon return to this collapsing world....and this nation that has gone from ignoring Him.....to giving great lip service with increasingly blank and meaningless prayers on a national stage....to adding Amazing Grace to a playlist of themes that do not glorify God.
How was your church service yesterday? Fine you say? Did you find yourself praying for your pastor during the sermon because the burden weighing him down seemed so great? If not then maybe the service was not so fine after all.Our pulpits in America have let us down.....they have let Christian believers down......and most important of all they have let their Lord and Savior down! Did they do this out of malice to the Gospel of Jesus Christ? No.....they did it out of ignorance. The worst that can be said about them is that they became lazy....(or else they knew it all)....and that when finally apprised of what is going on they...many of them...still refused to sound a clarion call.
Now maybe you are angry with me......how dare I you say! Folks....in a world as you perceive it to be at this time.....I might agree with you. In the actual world that we live in.....it's time to throw the passions of football and exercise out the window and get to work and prepare....
Is there any good news? The good news is so overwhelming that when one understands it one must fall before the majesty and the power and the glory of Jesus Christ. One must then have His hand put on them hearing..."Stand....fear not....for I am with you." He's coming back folks. Every child's tears throughout this world will be dried. Every mother's cries are heard and will end. Every Christian father's prayer for their children will be answered. Every war will end. Every crushing the skull of a beautiful pre-born baby will cease. Every abomination will be seen for what it is. Every slaughter of God's wonderful animal kingdom will stop. There is a cost to discipleship and we....in America....but not everywhere.... are about $20 trillion in arrears.
Difficult times are at our doorstep with a foot already in over the threshold. If you don't see this then you are not looking. There are multitudes of pastors out there who would express the same thoughts that I have given in this post. There is a winnowing ahead. Possibly the hardest thing will be multitudes....in the church....who will dig and dig until they come up with an excuse...not to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ! The rest of us will be united in the love of Jesus Christ. You may not feel so united with me right now but we're coming together....may God add multitudes to us! Maranatha....Come Lord Jesus!!
