Church....awaken!
It is far past time for the church (the
born-again, baptized, sanctified, Holy Ghost-filled, fervent servant of God) to
be militant again!
She was at one time in history, praise God ...
people knew that the church meant business for God. The lost knew that, to
face a Christian was to face DEATH ... death to sin, death to self, death to
sickness and disease, death to doubt and unbelief...and they trembled before
her... and got saved in the process. We were militant for Jesus, the
anointed of God!
We were a powerful army marching across this land and there
are thousands, yea, millions who are glad we were.BUT, we have let down our
defenses in the face of the folly of satan who began to scream "intolerance" and
"let live" and "anyway is okay as long it all leads to being kind one to
another", etc ad nauseum! God forbid! We are not even PROTESTants
anymore...just non-Catholics! We PROTEST nothing anymore in our churches
and in our lives as Christians ...We say "Oh, I have a VISION..."
Why,
not even ol' Gideon got in any trouble for having his vision! It is ACTION
that stirs hell and its demon forces and gets them whipped! GO...DO.. those are
the marching orders of the church!I am a FAITH preacher, you better believe
that! BUT, while power is good, miracles are real and precious, healing is
ours today as yesterday for He changes not, the gifts are real and wonderful and
powerful...all these we MAY have as Christians (they are God's to give us and He
does!)...but what we MUST have is a MESSAGE! (That message is the good news..the
GOSPEL of life, death, burial and resurrection of our Lord as preached in 1
Corinthians 15).
Not popular preaching in the 2000's? SO?
"We want to
keep harmony in the church, home and in business, etc...and that stuff is not my
business!" Well, what IS your business, church? People are dying and
splitting hell wide open every day because we are not militant (fervent) anymore
as we once were!
We WILL answer before the just God one day,
church...CHRISTIAN!!!!To KNOW they are lost and yet neglect to share because we
are afraid they will think we are not "tolerant" is damning to us ... and, most
of all, to them! It is a shame to us as a people...God's people! We scream that
we are a Christian nation when we get slandered... but we have stopped being
MILITANT and FERVENT... and do not think the world does not know it!
Know
this: The Bible still says without repentance..." How shall we escape if we
neglect so great a salvation?" Escape what? The wrath of God against
sin.Well, Brother Jim, we are not militant because we are not at war!NOT at
WAR? My God, how plain can God make it for us... how PLAIN can satan make
it for us? We are constantly in spiritual warfare... we have been TOLD to get up
every single day and put on the FULL armor of God that we might be able to
resist satan and his silly imps...fiery darts come our way daily (just get on
these subs and see what silly little darts are thrown! In fact, watch for the
darts which come from BOTH sides of the army at this post!)
It shows how FAR
we are removed from the militancy we once had as THE church of God!Paul got busy
and we should, too! Paul was a city-wide shaker, glory to God!When he
preached, he ransacked Asia Minor! He messed up markets! He stirred
synagogues! He flamboozled the Pharisees!
Hallelujah! After his
revival in Macedonia, they were NEVER the same!
Anywhere the Gospel is
preached with fervency and militant Christians take up the banner of the cross,
it SHAKES hell and it shakes people!The church today has become like the sons of
Sceva in Acts 19... trying to cast out demons in someone else's name (cults
abound, new ages, wiccy wacky, maryism, Buddhism,
anything-but-truthism, etc) ... and the world is saying "Jesus I know, and Paul
I know...but WHO are YOU!?"Who are you, church? Are you known in hell
today? It's time to establish our name (in Jesus!) again church... stand
up! STAND UP!!!!
I want satan to wake up every morning screaming
"Oh noooooooooooooooo....Bro Jim is up again!" And I want that for the
church of the living God!
