
The American Church…GROUNDED!
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ~ Proverbs 20:13
I’ve read this Proverb a thousand times or more, but I read it from a Wide Awake perspective this week and understood that God applies this scripture physically, and most importantly, spiritually! And we Wonder Why!!
As I was reading about where we were once upon a time with the help of Pastor Matt Trewhella:
It is now all the more needful that we should prove by our Defense whether a Christian magistrate can or ought to preserve his State and the Christian teachers and hearers in it against his own superior magistrate, and drive off by force one who is using force to compel people to reject the true doctrine and true worship of God, and to accept idolatry…
By the same sort of reasoning, twice 4 shall cease to be 8. Magistrates and subjects shall be bound by sure chains and mutual oaths, but it shall be permitted to magistrates , when they want to be loosed and free from all obligation, while subjects shall always be bound in all circumstances and never be free. It shall be permitted to magistrates to exercise the utmost tyranny contrary to the laws and their oaths, but it shall not be permitted to the subjects to restrain the ravings of tyrants in accordance with the laws. Thus the truth of our common sense and the logic of consequences will always depend on the whims and weapons of those who have power. ~ Matt Trewhella, The Magdeburg Confession 1550 AD
…and Pastor Earl Wallace:
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat said, “The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.” ~ (Claude-Frédéric Bastiat: June 30, 1801 – Dec, 24, 1850 — French economist & leading advocate of free markets and free trade in the mid-19th century.)
…and where we are today:
Satan’s 4-step plan to crush Christianity. ~ Pastor Mark Driscoll
Pastor Austin Kreutz’s wake-up-call to the WISP/CLOTH/Orange Strong Gathering in Newburgh last night…the enemy within…the Red/Green Alliance: Communism/Islam. Trevor Loudon spoke to the former at our last quarterly meeting in February, and Dr. Kreutz focused on the latter last night…while the American Church is sound asleep!
And finally, my Pastor Steve Offringa’s Devotional from yesterday:
Any sincere follower of the Lord Jesus Christ who is biblically grounded, Spirit-led, and accurately informed, should know that we are in the “last days” and “perilous times” which the Scripture described would come (see 2 Timothy 3)! These days have been in process for a long time, days that have been characterized, caused, and clouded by unprecedented deception, a deception that is essentially spiritual in nature! Our Savior specifically spoke of this, as the first sign of these final days before His promised return (see Matthew 24). And, due to a departure from the Word of God and its foundational truths, first in the church, and then across the board worldwide, the lies of the enemy have been allowed to take root in every area of human concern, “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy…” (John 10:10)! in countless places, the unadulterated Gospel of Christ has been replaced by numerous false gospels and apostate religion! Who denominations and other formerly Christian institutions have forsaken the truth of the Bible! Our educational system has been captured by atheistic evolutionism, secular humanism, and moral relativism, all creating moral, social, and judicial conflict in a world of greatly increased lawlessness! The family is in disarray, many churches have become entertainment centers, and schools are dangerous “turfs” of violent confrontation! Our Constitutional Republic is under orchestrated attack by enemies from within and from without its borders! And, as the late Dr. Stephen Olford preached from Romans 13:11-14, the true church of redeemed ones must “wake up, get up, and dress up”, and all in the oneness and power of the Holy Spirit! Let “stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11ff), “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17), uphold the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15) and share Jesus with everyone we possibly can! Our message is not one of mere religious and political reform! Ours is one of salvation in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!” “Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy…”(Psalm 107:2).
And it dawned on me, God created His church to fly with two wings; Love & Mercy the left wing, Judgement & Justice the right wing. While everything Pastor Steve describes took place in America, the enemy sawed off the right wing. The fully anesthetized church, and I dare say 97% of you in it, never felt a thing! Pastor Matt Trewhella goes straight to the heart of it in his sermon from last Sunday: Faultfinding, Evil Desires, and Divisions ~ Jude:14-19
I’ll leave you with this. The Bible is the ONLY book that reads us while we are reading it. When you read Psalm 91, He knows whether or not you actually believe His Word. Please consider carefully…








