You mean God's judgments alone aren't enough to cut down on sin in the Body of Christ? Does God beat his children or correct them? Are we supposed to fear our Father as if he is out to get us? What kind of fear are you preaching Michael?
I dont get your first question. The answer to the second is he scourges every Son he receives. Our Father will not be out to get you if you keep yourself from sin.
What kind of fear am I teaching? The fear of the LORD.
This revival is already starting to gain momentum in America. The house church movement is growing and becoming a greater force in modern Christianity. I see it as a restoration, and a refreshing of the people of God.
Now something dose cause me pause. It may so be that persecution will follow on the heals of this revival. Perhaps the growing house church movement is God's way of preparing the remnant church he wishes to preserve by getting them out of the established religious system that will be destroyed when persecution begins. For those who depend on traditional trappings of "church", they will be scattered like sheep having no shepherd if persecution begins in America. However, the house church movement will already have very private networks already established.
That is what I was thinking ,and in a certain respect it is happening now [I mean the persecution] We on the other hand have to be ready for what God is going to do.
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The most fearsome wrath of God will find the "religious", those who trust in man made standards and doctrines of men for their salvation. The only thing more worldly than Hollywood is... religion. Woe unto the scribes and the Pharisees of this generation. Your house will be left unto you desolate. Prostitutes and sinners will enter the Kingdom of Heaven before the religious legalists of this age. Fear ye the Lord!
yes, misunderstood, minimized, excluded and persecuted.
A good example is what was called "the Jesus people" and "the Charismatic movement" back in the nineteen sixties. They were not part of the organized churches. They baptized people in the ocean or lakes or swimming pools or hot tubs. They laid hands on one another and prayed and prophesied and spoke in tongues. We (myself included) looked down on them and wondered how that could really be God in them because they did not come to us to receive His Spirit and they did not look like us.
God has since mercifully forgiven me for my judgmentalism and excusivism.
Brother Sam , I just reread this WOW , someone said to me you will be surprised who will be in Heaven and who won't be.
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