Preface: The following was posted on Wednesday....three days before Israel experienced the darkest day in its history.
Does anybody think that this might be the Lord's Day that pastors....maybe even with tears on their cheeks....tell their congregations that they are going in a different direction....on the path they should have been on all along....preaching Christ....His works and His glories....our wanderings away from Him....and His warnings to us if we do not humble ourselves and return? The following is from a post on the Fourth of July, 2019
As I have mentioned more than once over the years of these posts....should God choose....for His glory alone....to awaken our dormant pulpits....dormant as to warning of any dangers....either temporal or eternal....and should they then cast aside this weak and gutted gospel that fills their pulpits today....then there would be no power on earth....or in the heavens....that could stay God's hand of mercy upon us in the coming turmoil; but should God choose to let us lie in the bed we have made for ourselves....there is no army....no president.....and no MAGA....that can mitigate or even delay the judgments that are approaching like a runaway freight train. Revolutions can be hijacked....and movements can fail....but God gave these words to Isaiah....
"A voice says, 'Cry!' And I said, 'what shall I cry?' All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; Surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of God will stand forever." (Isaiah 40:6-8)
This question from today....October 4, 2023: We were riding high on July 4 of 2019....laughing and shouting USA USA USA to the promise that...."The best is yet to come." Ask yourself...."What has it been like since then?"
Note: There are churches....I know of many...where the pastor thinks that his congregation needs no warning and deserves no criticism as did five of the seven church in Revelation chapters 2 and 3. There is no repentance needed....no preparation as the bride of a returning Christ....and no humbling....but we all....built this 'urban city'....all of us....spending Lord's Days watching the Steelers....while enjoying the benefits of good wages and safe suburbs....partaking in and supporting all the entertainments by which this culture drowns us....and by our partaking....aiding and abetting a distorted capitalism that cares nothing about the burned out urban areas it produces.....and then to top it off.....we blame those in the urban areas....as if they chose to start life in a slum....and as if we played no part in the building of this society. None of us today are immune from facing the responsibility for the society that we all have built. These pastors might want to revisit the Seven Letters to the Seven Churches....this time with a little bit more humility.
