Just because someone has more followers than you…GOT NEWS FOR YA – that doesn’t mean they’re better than you….When you preach the FEEL GOOD MESSAGES YOU’LL BE LOVED BY THE WORLD, BUT WHEN YOU PREACH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL you will be HATED by THIS world – so remember this…
This Man preached HATE
FOLLOWERS = millions
This …um man..um preaches LOVE
FOLLOWERS = EVEN MORE
This MAN DIED FOR ALL:
FOLLOWERS = 12
So, who’s cross are you gonna follow? The Cross of this world, or the Love of Christ on the Cross of Calvary?
Let’s start 2013 with a bang — no pun intended… I went out to an outdoor mall on Friday to do some “Fishn4souls” and was PRAISING GOD AT HOW HE WORKS!! Praise HIS name for the ones that were prayed for and the ones that gave their live to Jesus!! As the day went on I was dismayed as I watched thousands of people walk past me with “blinders” on. Some even walked over to the other side of the mall JUST to avoid me. Uh, what’s up with that??? I made sure I took a shower and even washed my hair!
All joking aside, I watched some point and laugh, others mumbled under their breath, and a few even mustered enough courage to come tell me; I had NO right to tell them that they may be on the way to Hell, just because they hadn’t repented for the sin that they admitted to committing. They stated that they were told that GOD IS LOVE and HE would never send anyone to Hell. Matter of fact one actually said this: “I am saved, therefore I am NO LONGER a sinner”…..SAY WHAT????? He is no longer a sinner?????????? Please pray that whoever teaches this message — their snooze button will be removed!!
One person actually shared “We are not supposed to talk about it”……???????????????????? I thought, did that person really just say that? But unfortunately, there were more than one and it continued throughout the day.
I weep when I hear and see such things, but who’s to blame – is it the message that is being preached and taught throughout SO many churches today? I’ll let you decide…. I actually had a OUTREACH LEADER of a local church (right by THE GROVE mall in Wesley Chapel, Fl) tell me that “We should share the Gospel with words, ONLY WHEN NECESSARY”……..GOOD GRIEF! When he said that I almost fell out, now this is one who is IN CHARGE of outreach for his church!! What broke my heart even more was when I asked him “Who told you that my friend” his response was “St. Francis”. Now I don’t know about you but there isn’t a st. Francis in my BIBLE.
UGH!! I could go on and on but it’s not about bashing churches. The mission that God has put on my heart this year is to WAKE UP Christians all across the WORLD… so I figure the best place to start is where “a prophet has no honor” – in his own country!
Here it is folks… “AMERICA IS IN NEED OF A GREAT WAKE UP….BUT WE CONTINUE TO HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON”….well, if you thought I was bold in 2012 …you better call for backup… I’m coming, posting, speaking, praying, witnessing BOLDER THAN EVER BEFORE– MeN…TIME TO WAKE UP …NO MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE – YoU WeRe NoT CALLED to play ViDeO GaMeS, you were not CALLED to SuRf the InTeRnEt… You WeRe NoT CALLED to lay on the couch with a beer in one hand and a remote in the other….
TIME TO FIGHT… TIME TO MAKE WAR!!
YOU ARE CALLED TO ADVANCE A KINGDOM – GOD’S KINGDOM – YOU ARE CALLED TO BE SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF YOUR HOMES…. How many of you MeN out there can or moreover WOULD claim your position as “Warrior for God” in front of the “buds” or “homies”…..how bout to a perfect stranger…
MEN… LET YOUR BATTLE CRY FOR 2013 AND FOREVER AFTER BE:
Okay… from the beginning my readers/subscribers have known that I’ve never been about status quo. So in saying that, this weeks posts are going to be very controversial. They are not meant to offend anyone but understand that I am willing to offend if it means the TRUTH is spread across the world. I don’t care about how many likes I have or whether or not I’m the top blogger of the week .. if the LORD enables these messages to reach just ONE sinner and through God’s strength they are led to the foot of the cross in TRUE repentance, I will rejoice. Know that the first topic this week will be about how and why we pray…. Why does it seem like we only pray when tragedy strikes… why does it seem like this nation only comes together when something of National Media attention hits the air. WHY?? When the Bible says pray without ceasing!!
For the ones that these next posts offends, I pray the scales begin to fall from your eyes.
A little boy once said to his mom, “I am sick of the food you keep giving me—potatoes,carrots, and spinach. From now on I choose my own diet.
I am having nothing but chocolate candy bars for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.” Imagine what the child would look like if he were allowed to eat what he wanted. His face would break into pimples. He may become very sick and even die because of a lack of proper food. His facial condition would be an evident token that he was on the wrong diet—even though it tastes good to him, it’s not good for him. Man’s attitude is,
“God, from now on, I don’t want your diet—I want mine.”
He chooses sin rather than righteousness. He wants what tastes good rather than what is good. As a direct result of humanity’s sinful diet, painful pimples have broken out over the whole face of the earth. There are diseases, floods, earthquakes, starvation, endless suffering, and death. All these things should show us that something is radically wrong with our diet. Instead of using the sufferings of humanity as an excuse to re-ject God, see them as stark evidences to accept Him and the explanations given in His Word. They are very real reminders that what God says is true.
I have a question… How many of us are willing to lose the biggest giver in our church rather than preach a diluted Gospel? That’s the dilemma… Jonathan, in my humble opinion, when we so focus on decisions for Christ and chasing “Potential Members” we are actually taking away from the body of Christ…. my church will NEVER be about “MEMBERS” or “NUMBERSHIP” or “Decisions”…. it’s about bringing the lost and unregenerate to the foot of the cross IN HOPES, Christ will grant them repentance for sin… So our obligation as a Warrior for God is to preach the GOSPEL TRUTH and not to run after sinners who continually reject Christ — after all… what did Jesus do when the rich man walked away in sadness after learning what he needed to do to walk with Christ….. Did Jesus run after him and say…..”ooh wait… come on come back let Me invite you to a lamb barbecue, so we can develop a non-confrontation relationship ….no HE didn’t.. HE allowed him to choose HE didn’t chase after HIM….
Folks, I was like that… I constantly put on a fake look … dressed up the outside while I was dying inside…. Please if this is speaking to you right now…. GET ON YOUR KNEES…. BECAUSE A MAN THAT KNEELS TO GOD CAN STAND UP TO ANYTHING!!
Check this out…… that very day 2 of them were going to a village named Emmaus – about 7 miles from Jerusalem, 7 MILES….7 MILES…7 Miles away, how ever many minutes by car, how ever many minutes it’d take you to run that…an hour, 2 hours, 4 days…..7 miles from Jerusalem and they were talking to each other about all these things and what had happened….. while they were talking and discussing together, JESUS Himself drew near…and listen to this……WENT WITH THEM —-WHERE???? TO EMMAUS….HOW FAR AWAY IS THAT?? 7 MILES.
Lemme tell you why I’m pointing this out – Historically, not biblically, Historically this causes a lot of trouble for the secular mind….so there’s all these theories about how to deal with it….. one of the theories is – that when they arrested Him, beat Him a dozen times, yanked the beard out of his face…..drove nails through His hands and feet. After they ripped the skin off His back and left Him hanging there for 6 HOURS…then took a spear and DROVE IT under His rib cage through His lungs and back out, spilling blood and water all over the cross, that maybe they didn’t kill Him, that they put Him into the ground and 2 DAYS LATER, HE’S WALKING 7 MILES TO EMMAUS WITH 2 GUYS.
RIDICULOUS…..THE WORLD SAYS…. THEY SAY YOU’D HAVE TO BE AN IDIOT TO BELIEVE THAT THEORY….I mean come on ….Have you ever broken a toe and tried to walk without looking like your hips exploded inside your PELVIS????
The theory….the historical, Discovery Channel theory is that after this unbelievable beating, JESUS is 2 days later walking to Emmaus for 7 miles
NOW THAT’S SILLY….. The world says… All the goofiness that is Christianity, that’s right up there with the dumbest things those Christians believe, that after having your full body weight bared down on a nail driven through the center of both your feet that 48 hours later your walking a 7 MILE JAUNT TO EMMAUS…..
THANK YOU JESUS THAT THIS GOOFY CHRISTIAN IS NO LONGER
CONFORMED TO WHAT THIS WORLD BELIEVES, THANK YOU JESUS THAT
FOLLOWERS = millions
FOLLOWERS = EVEN MORE
