HIS WORD ABOVE HIS NAME [PS.138:2]
THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH OF THE CHURCH! (ISA.59:1-2)
1. Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. (Isa 59: 1-2)
When we last spoke on this,casting aspersions and blames on God for the eventual implications of our own choices,there was no desire to continue it,as holiness subjects are hugely unpopular with the freedom churches.
I'm sorry if my comments are antagonizing,but it's the truth.
And some responses I saw prompted me to go more on it. TEACHINGS ON SIN DESERVE THE WHOLE OF OUR ATTENTION, IF TRULY WE ARE FOR GOD!
NOW,I MAKE BOLD TO ASK A QUESTION..WHY IS THAT IN OUR HOURS OF NEED, THERE'S NO DELIVERANCE? I AIN'T REFERRING TO THE SORCERIES MANY OF SEE AS DELIVERANCE AND MIRACLES (MAGIC ACTUALLY).
WHY ARE OUR PRAYERS FOR AID LARGELY GO UNANSWERED?
Is God dead? Of course NOT. It's largely because of the sin matters we refused to address. Till date,plus GRACE minus GRACE, sin yet remains a barrier between us and God. God didn't Sacrifice so much for sin to give us a license to willfully continue in sin.
DO WE REALIZE THE SINFUL IMPACT OF THE WEALTH IN THE CHURCH TODAY? HOW THE WEALTH WAS SOURCED...THE METHODS AND THE DESPERATION... REMEMBER,GOD ISN'T MAN;
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. (Rev 3: 17)
I'm sure you know He was directly addressing us...the last of the churches.
The wretched, pitiable,poor,blind and the naked is showing our lives to us on a TV screen how we became rich(from pew to pulpit and back)
Let us revisit Isaiah 59 againjust a few verses;
3. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4. No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. (Isa 59: 3-4)
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways. (Isa 59: 7)
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. (Isa 59: 9)
With this,, isn't it clear enough that God knows where the church wealth is gotten from,and THEREFORE MERELY WATCHES US USING THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH TO SOLVE CONSECRATED ISSUES....AND YOU KNOW IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. YOU CAN'T WORK IN COMPANY "A" AND RECEIVES SALARY FROM COMPANY "B"!
The defilement of the hands. With the guilt of blood. But probably this stands, by a strong figure, for sin in general. The lips are lying, and the tongue depraved. Here the organs of the body, ministers of the mind, express and set forth the state of the latter. There is a certain correspondence between cleanliness of the person and truthfulness and honesty of the soul. And it is just this which is wanting. Society is resting on a foundation of chaos.
Men weave their schemes, vain and brittle as spiders' webs, or hatch policies pernicious as the eggs of basilisks. They tread with swiftness the paths of mischief; their thoughts are full of hate and destruction. They ignore the way of peace and the track of justice, and follow crooked paths of their own (Proverbs 10:9; Proverbs 28:18; Proverbs 2:15). It is a picture of extreme social demoralization.
LISTEN TO WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT IT;
Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. (Rev 3: 18)
Going back to Prophet Isaiah ,God passionately desires us as His watchmen to address SIN and treat it like leprosy...that it can lead to PENITENCE AND CONFESSION OF SINS. The prophet speaks in the name of the people. And here all the true elements of repentance and confession may be found.
The connection of sin with Divine disfavour. The first thing is to see that the curse does not "causeless come;" the next to fix upon the true cause. It is not because of want of will or want of power in God (ver. 12). They were entitled to expect His help, according to the covenant, but not apart from conditions on their side to be fulfilled. If, then, the judicial interference of Jehovah on their behalf was not witnessed, the cause must lie in the breach of those conditions - in "our sins."
Human darkness and bewilderment without God. "Jehovah shall be thy Light and thy Salvation." That light withdrawn, - what can there be groping and stumbling in the thick darkness? (Deuteronomy 28:29). How extreme the contrast of the "way which Jehovah knows," of the "path of the just, shining to the perfect day;" and the "knowing not whither he goeth," the "staggering as at noonday," the groping and stumbling of the man God-abandoned and left to himself.
Human sorrow and despair without God. Compared to the growling or moaning of beast or bird. Men long to have their own will and way, and find that to be "lords of themselves" is a "heritage of woe." Sooner or later they must find that their passionate autonomy means "rebellion" before God and in their own consciousness. And peace cannot be where they know that they are thus "kicking against the goads." The passage strongly shows how a violated conscience must be a tormenting conscience. God will not let us sin and forget. "As for our iniquities, we know them."
Human shame and self-contempt without God. It is contempt that "pierces through the shell of the tortoise;" above all, one's own contempt. The worst is when we look into the mirror held up, not by hand of enemy or critic, but by our own, and see the lineaments of the traitor, the expression of the infidel at heart, the base attitude of the deserter and backslider from the Holy One, the downcast mien of the convicted liar.
There has been no truth, no rectitude, no justice. You still want to know why?
These, as fair spirits, have been Banished from a polluted Earth. And if one would live an innocent life, he is but game for any rude spoiler. In all this there is the deepest sense of the evil of sin, and of the need of humiliation. It is felt that humiliation cannot remove the evil, unless it first remove the sin. Misery is the natural effect of iniquity; and he that seeks to rid himself of the one before he is freed from the other would hinder the stream before he has stopped the fountain. *REND YOUR HEARTS, AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS .* If the heart be not torn off from sin, to rend only the garment further provokes God, and makes the breach wider. There is no religious duty attains its end, but when it weakens our sin." True repentance and fasting/praying for forgiveness draws down, as here seen, the pity and invites the help of the Almighty God.
SO,NEVER MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING WEALTH IS A SIGN OF GOD'S APPROVAL OF A CHURCH...NOT AT ALL, FOR IT MATTERS TO GOD HOW THAT IS ACQUIRED !
THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH OF THE CHURCH! (ISA.59:1-2)
1. Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. (Isa 59: 1-2)
When we last spoke on this,casting aspersions and blames on God for the eventual implications of our own choices,there was no desire to continue it,as holiness subjects are hugely unpopular with the freedom churches.
I'm sorry if my comments are antagonizing,but it's the truth.
And some responses I saw prompted me to go more on it. TEACHINGS ON SIN DESERVE THE WHOLE OF OUR ATTENTION, IF TRULY WE ARE FOR GOD!
NOW,I MAKE BOLD TO ASK A QUESTION..WHY IS THAT IN OUR HOURS OF NEED, THERE'S NO DELIVERANCE? I AIN'T REFERRING TO THE SORCERIES MANY OF SEE AS DELIVERANCE AND MIRACLES (MAGIC ACTUALLY).
WHY ARE OUR PRAYERS FOR AID LARGELY GO UNANSWERED?
Is God dead? Of course NOT. It's largely because of the sin matters we refused to address. Till date,plus GRACE minus GRACE, sin yet remains a barrier between us and God. God didn't Sacrifice so much for sin to give us a license to willfully continue in sin.
DO WE REALIZE THE SINFUL IMPACT OF THE WEALTH IN THE CHURCH TODAY? HOW THE WEALTH WAS SOURCED...THE METHODS AND THE DESPERATION... REMEMBER,GOD ISN'T MAN;
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. (Rev 3: 17)
I'm sure you know He was directly addressing us...the last of the churches.
The wretched, pitiable,poor,blind and the naked is showing our lives to us on a TV screen how we became rich(from pew to pulpit and back)
Let us revisit Isaiah 59 againjust a few verses;
3. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4. No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. (Isa 59: 3-4)
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways. (Isa 59: 7)
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. (Isa 59: 9)
With this,, isn't it clear enough that God knows where the church wealth is gotten from,and THEREFORE MERELY WATCHES US USING THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH TO SOLVE CONSECRATED ISSUES....AND YOU KNOW IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. YOU CAN'T WORK IN COMPANY "A" AND RECEIVES SALARY FROM COMPANY "B"!
The defilement of the hands. With the guilt of blood. But probably this stands, by a strong figure, for sin in general. The lips are lying, and the tongue depraved. Here the organs of the body, ministers of the mind, express and set forth the state of the latter. There is a certain correspondence between cleanliness of the person and truthfulness and honesty of the soul. And it is just this which is wanting. Society is resting on a foundation of chaos.
Men weave their schemes, vain and brittle as spiders' webs, or hatch policies pernicious as the eggs of basilisks. They tread with swiftness the paths of mischief; their thoughts are full of hate and destruction. They ignore the way of peace and the track of justice, and follow crooked paths of their own (Proverbs 10:9; Proverbs 28:18; Proverbs 2:15). It is a picture of extreme social demoralization.
LISTEN TO WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT IT;
Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. (Rev 3: 18)
Going back to Prophet Isaiah ,God passionately desires us as His watchmen to address SIN and treat it like leprosy...that it can lead to PENITENCE AND CONFESSION OF SINS. The prophet speaks in the name of the people. And here all the true elements of repentance and confession may be found.
The connection of sin with Divine disfavour. The first thing is to see that the curse does not "causeless come;" the next to fix upon the true cause. It is not because of want of will or want of power in God (ver. 12). They were entitled to expect His help, according to the covenant, but not apart from conditions on their side to be fulfilled. If, then, the judicial interference of Jehovah on their behalf was not witnessed, the cause must lie in the breach of those conditions - in "our sins."
Human darkness and bewilderment without God. "Jehovah shall be thy Light and thy Salvation." That light withdrawn, - what can there be groping and stumbling in the thick darkness? (Deuteronomy 28:29). How extreme the contrast of the "way which Jehovah knows," of the "path of the just, shining to the perfect day;" and the "knowing not whither he goeth," the "staggering as at noonday," the groping and stumbling of the man God-abandoned and left to himself.
Human sorrow and despair without God. Compared to the growling or moaning of beast or bird. Men long to have their own will and way, and find that to be "lords of themselves" is a "heritage of woe." Sooner or later they must find that their passionate autonomy means "rebellion" before God and in their own consciousness. And peace cannot be where they know that they are thus "kicking against the goads." The passage strongly shows how a violated conscience must be a tormenting conscience. God will not let us sin and forget. "As for our iniquities, we know them."
Human shame and self-contempt without God. It is contempt that "pierces through the shell of the tortoise;" above all, one's own contempt. The worst is when we look into the mirror held up, not by hand of enemy or critic, but by our own, and see the lineaments of the traitor, the expression of the infidel at heart, the base attitude of the deserter and backslider from the Holy One, the downcast mien of the convicted liar.
There has been no truth, no rectitude, no justice. You still want to know why?
These, as fair spirits, have been Banished from a polluted Earth. And if one would live an innocent life, he is but game for any rude spoiler. In all this there is the deepest sense of the evil of sin, and of the need of humiliation. It is felt that humiliation cannot remove the evil, unless it first remove the sin. Misery is the natural effect of iniquity; and he that seeks to rid himself of the one before he is freed from the other would hinder the stream before he has stopped the fountain. *REND YOUR HEARTS, AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS .* If the heart be not torn off from sin, to rend only the garment further provokes God, and makes the breach wider. There is no religious duty attains its end, but when it weakens our sin." True repentance and fasting/praying for forgiveness draws down, as here seen, the pity and invites the help of the Almighty God.
SO,NEVER MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING WEALTH IS A SIGN OF GOD'S APPROVAL OF A CHURCH...NOT AT ALL, FOR IT MATTERS TO GOD HOW THAT IS ACQUIRED !
HIS WORD ABOVE HIS NAME [PS.138:2]
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THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH OF THE CHURCH! (ISA.59:1-2)
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1. Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. (Isa 59: 1-2)
When we last spoke on this,casting aspersions and blames on God for the eventual implications of our own choices,there was no desire to continue it,as holiness subjects are hugely unpopular with the freedom churches.
I'm sorry if my comments are antagonizing,but it's the truth.
And some responses I saw prompted me to go more on it. TEACHINGS ON SIN DESERVE THE WHOLE OF OUR ATTENTION, IF TRULY WE ARE FOR GOD!
NOW,I MAKE BOLD TO ASK A QUESTION..WHY IS THAT IN OUR HOURS OF NEED, THERE'S NO DELIVERANCE? I AIN'T REFERRING TO THE SORCERIES MANY OF SEE AS DELIVERANCE AND MIRACLES (MAGIC ACTUALLY).
WHY ARE OUR PRAYERS FOR AID LARGELY GO UNANSWERED?
Is God dead? Of course NOT. It's largely because of the sin matters we refused to address. Till date,plus GRACE minus GRACE, sin yet remains a barrier between us and God. God didn't Sacrifice so much for sin to give us a license to willfully continue in sin.
DO WE REALIZE THE SINFUL IMPACT OF THE WEALTH IN THE CHURCH TODAY? HOW THE WEALTH WAS SOURCED...THE METHODS AND THE DESPERATION... REMEMBER,GOD ISN'T MAN;
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. (Rev 3: 17)
I'm sure you know He was directly addressing us...the last of the churches.
The wretched, pitiable,poor,blind and the naked is showing our lives to us on a TV screen how we became rich(from pew to pulpit and back)
Let us revisit Isaiah 59 again👇just a few verses;
3. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4. No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. (Isa 59: 3-4)
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways. (Isa 59: 7)
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. (Isa 59: 9)
With this,👆, isn't it clear enough that God knows where the church wealth is gotten from,and THEREFORE MERELY WATCHES US USING THE UNCONSECRATED WEALTH TO SOLVE CONSECRATED ISSUES....AND YOU KNOW IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. YOU CAN'T WORK IN COMPANY "A" AND RECEIVES SALARY FROM COMPANY "B"!
The defilement of the hands. With the guilt of blood. But probably this stands, by a strong figure, for sin in general. The lips are lying, and the tongue depraved. Here the organs of the body, ministers of the mind, express and set forth the state of the latter. There is a certain correspondence between cleanliness of the person and truthfulness and honesty of the soul. And it is just this which is wanting. Society is resting on a foundation of chaos.
Men weave their schemes, vain and brittle as spiders' webs, or hatch policies pernicious as the eggs of basilisks. They tread with swiftness the paths of mischief; their thoughts are full of hate and destruction. They ignore the way of peace and the track of justice, and follow crooked paths of their own (Proverbs 10:9; Proverbs 28:18; Proverbs 2:15). It is a picture of extreme social demoralization.
LISTEN TO WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT IT;
Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. (Rev 3: 18)
Going back to Prophet Isaiah ,God passionately desires us as His watchmen to address SIN and treat it like leprosy...that it can lead to PENITENCE AND CONFESSION OF SINS. The prophet speaks in the name of the people. And here all the true elements of repentance and confession may be found.
👉The connection of sin with Divine disfavour. The first thing is to see that the curse does not "causeless come;" the next to fix upon the true cause. It is not because of want of will or want of power in God (ver. 12). They were entitled to expect His help, according to the covenant, but not apart from conditions on their side to be fulfilled. If, then, the judicial interference of Jehovah on their behalf was not witnessed, the cause must lie in the breach of those conditions - in "our sins."
👉Human darkness and bewilderment without God. "Jehovah shall be thy Light and thy Salvation." That light withdrawn, - what can there be groping and stumbling in the thick darkness? (Deuteronomy 28:29). How extreme the contrast of the "way which Jehovah knows," of the "path of the just, shining to the perfect day;" and the "knowing not whither he goeth," the "staggering as at noonday," the groping and stumbling of the man God-abandoned and left to himself.
👉Human sorrow and despair without God. Compared to the growling or moaning of beast or bird. Men long to have their own will and way, and find that to be "lords of themselves" is a "heritage of woe." Sooner or later they must find that their passionate autonomy means "rebellion" before God and in their own consciousness. And peace cannot be where they know that they are thus "kicking against the goads." The passage strongly shows how a violated conscience must be a tormenting conscience. God will not let us sin and forget. "As for our iniquities, we know them."
👉Human shame and self-contempt without God. It is contempt that "pierces through the shell of the tortoise;" above all, one's own contempt. The worst is when we look into the mirror held up, not by hand of enemy or critic, but by our own, and see the lineaments of the traitor, the expression of the infidel at heart, the base attitude of the deserter and backslider from the Holy One, the downcast mien of the convicted liar.
There has been no truth, no rectitude, no justice. You still want to know why?
These, as fair spirits, have been Banished from a polluted Earth. And if one would live an innocent life, he is but game for any rude spoiler. In all this there is the deepest sense of the evil of sin, and of the need of humiliation. It is felt that humiliation cannot remove the evil, unless it first remove the sin. Misery is the natural effect of iniquity; and he that seeks to rid himself of the one before he is freed from the other would hinder the stream before he has stopped the fountain. *REND YOUR HEARTS, AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS .* If the heart be not torn off from sin, to rend only the garment further provokes God, and makes the breach wider. There is no religious duty attains its end, but when it weakens our sin." True repentance and fasting/praying for forgiveness draws down, as here seen, the pity and invites the help of the Almighty God.
SO,NEVER MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING WEALTH IS A SIGN OF GOD'S APPROVAL OF A CHURCH...NOT AT ALL, FOR IT MATTERS TO GOD HOW THAT IS ACQUIRED 🙇🙏!
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