The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Sackcloth & Ash

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ~ Matthew 11:21

On a Thursday night in the Fall of 2019, in a men’s Bible study at Calvary Baptist Church in Warwick, we were in the “Warrior” chapter of the John Eldredge book, Fathered by God. I remember how I had so looked forward to this night because I had convinced myself that God was going to stir the hearts of these men I love to finally step into their armor as only He could. That dream ended when the moderator asked the question to the twenty of us in the room, “What is your red line…the point where you would risk your own life to stand?” Without a sliver of hesitation I responded, “The moment they bring Drag Queen Story Hour to the Wisner Library!” You could have heard a pin drop…

The same hidden wolf in the room that gave me the death stare that Thursday night would do it again months later when I tried to warn the flock of the insidious evil behind the covid scam “contact tracing” being rolled out…That was the beginning of the end of my days at Calvary.

But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter; and all we are the work of Your hand. ~ Isaiah 64:8

There is an ocean of reality that has since sent waves crashing over the protective barrier reefs of America exposing the hidden reefs Jude had warned of over two thousand years ago. Woe unto thee who refuse to see the hour…

Just yesterday I wrote, “There is nothing more beneficial to the enemy than lulling Christians into inaction based on times that haven’t ended yet. Please don’t get caught in that trap. I don’t know when He’s coming, but when He does, He’s going to find me with my shirt sleeves rolled up and very much in the game. Don’t know what to do? Get out of the anesthetized church and come to a CLOTH meeting. TRUST ME, your soul will thank you!”

Seth Gruber asking the very same question I’ve been asking for the past three years!!! “Where is the blood-bought bride of Christ?” “Sexual Perverts in the 20th Century Inspired Modern Leftists” “Child sacrifice is the conclusion of the sexual revolution.” ~ Seth Gruber

Meanwhile, back at the CLOTH Ranch:

CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson) Forms ~ NO Calvary!

CLOTH births the Eagle Classical Christian Academy ~ NO Calvary!

5/7 Special “Arise & Shine” CLOTH, 15 Churches ~ NO Calvary!

83 attendees 6/8 CLOTH Revival Fundraiser, $5,351 raised! ~ NO Calvary!

CLOTH Alert! “Child sacrifice is the conclusion of the sexual revolution.” ~ NO Calvary!

…as prophesied in Matthew 13:11, He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

On the morning of our June 8 Revival Fundraiser, the Holy Spirit gave me Isaiah 64:8 as a sign of the Calvary churches of the world who have slipped out of the Potters hands and onto the wheel of the enemy, and that the time has finally come to cease “wringing our hands over those who don’t, and lifting our hands in gratitude and praise for those who do!”

For those with ears to hear, and eyes to see…

A great world crisis is coming as the nations are preparing for war on a global scale .

A new movement of God is being birthed as we speak as Everything had to be birthed by and depend on God rather than men. The days of Christian celebrities and self-help seminars is over. Health, wealth, comfort and prosperity is no longer. Everything you have gone through has trained you for this moment.

You are more responsible for this victory today than those men on the battlefield of both world wars. You must be dead to everything else but this fight,

No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier…( 2 Timothy 2:4 )

I believe the Church is starving for true leadership that has the ability to be scriptural, authentic, articulate, simple and fresh. Needed is a blueprint for the Spirit-empowered Church that is anchored in the ancient text of the Bible and breathed upon by the Holy Spirit.

Will we go back to the bondage of religion (Egypt) prior to the global pandemic, or will we follow the Holy Spirit and a new breed of pioneers and visionaries into the promises of God for the new era? Christian celebrities is over, we are back to new-found fellowship of rough neck fisherman or believers worldwide. As the crisis and darkness continue to rise and cover the lands, the Lord is bringing the Church into a new era. Men and women dedicated to the old ways…

Jeremiah 6:16, Thus says the LORD: ‘Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls.’” ~ F. Pierre

Finally, my Calvary brethren, Where Is Your Confidence? When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horse, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ~ Deuteronomy 20:1

Chambers answered the question this very morning…

It is the will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. Why does not God save me? He has saved me, but I have not entered into relationship with Him. Why does God not do this and that? He has done it, the point is—Will I step into covenant relationship? All the great blessings of God are finished and complete, but they are not mine until I enter into relationship with Him on the basis of His covenant.

Waiting for God is incarnate unbelief, it means that I have no faith in Him; I wait for Him to do something in me that I may trust in that. God will not do it, because that is not the basis of the God-and-man relationship. Man has to go out of himself in his covenant with God as God goes out of Himself in His covenant with man. It is a question of faith in God—the rarest thing; we have faith only in our feelings. I do not believe God unless He will give me something in my hand whereby I may know I have it, then I say—“Now I believe.” There is no faith there. “Look to me and be saved.”

When I have really transacted business with God on His covenant and have let go entirely, there is no sense of merit, no human ingredient in it at all, but a complete overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God, and the whole thing is transfigured with peace and joy. ~ Oswald Chambers, In Union with God

I pray thee, O Lord, give me the Spirit of David this day!

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3 Responses to The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Sackcloth & Ash

  1. Chip Murray's avatar Chip Murray says:

    “The Gospel account records that when Jesus “saw the multitude, He was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd” (Matthew 9:36)! So, what really “moves” you, as someone who claims to follow Christ? Does the plight of sinful humanity and of lost souls move you, as it does Christ? Or, are you locked into your own carefully crafted, self-made religious “comfort zone” of pious insensitivity and indifference? Are you happy, as long as your own needs are met, and as long as your own vacation plans are not interrupted? Are you really and deeply moved by the backslidden condition of the church, by the wickedness of the government, by the sexual assault against our children, by the moral perversion of our society, and everything else that is swiftly driving us to certain destruction and to God’s divine and deserved judgement? Are you just “annoyed” or “frustrated” over your own selfish sense of personal inconvenience because of what is happening, or are you truly compelled to prayer, and to a brave response in the Name of Jesus to the grave situation at hand?” ~ Pastor Steve Offringa, Howells Church…where men are men, and the sheep are grateful!

  2. SYLVIA MORIZZO's avatar SYLVIA MORIZZO says:

    Great article! Have a blessed week.

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