Oh Church in America! How I weep over our false and worthless religion today. We who are grafted in with Judah, because of the Lion of that tribe, Jesus, O how we are falling. The words that the Lord burdened on my heart today still weigh heavy. Will any of us hear the warnings and see? Will we remember what we have heard and truly repent? Or will we find that our religion is worthless and was built on sinking sand? I pray these Words of the Lord will speak to you as they have spoken to me. The things spoken of in the past, are still being spoken to us today. They were warnings to God’s bride Israel, and they are warnings to Christ’s bride, the Church.
Jeremiah 7- This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message: “Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!” If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. “Will you steal and murder, committ adultery and purjury, burn incence to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say “We are safe”-safe to do all these detestable things?” Has this house which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord. Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you but you did not answer. Therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your fathers. I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your brothers, the people of Ephraim.” So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you. Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger. But am I the one they are provoking? declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame? “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground and it will burn and not be quenched. “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add to your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! For when I brought your forefathers out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices, but I gave them this command: Obey me and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, that it may go well with you. But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. From the time your forefathers left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servents the prophets. But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their forefathers.” When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer. Therefore say to them, “This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips. Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under His wrath.
Rev 3 :14 the message to the Church of Laodocia, though it speaks of the same warnings also gives a remnant a hope. The Lord always has a remenant. For those who will remember and repent, return and obey, we will be overcomers because of Jesus Christ and we will be spared from His wrath that is to come. But for those who will not obey, who will continue in their wordly lives and the pleasures of sin, and then enter into the temple of our Lord, the Church that bears His name and declare, “we are safe” there will be judgement .When we declare from our pulpits “Grace and safety”, even while we turn around and live our lives for other gods there will be judgement . We pick and choose the attributes of Christ we want, yet when judgement and warning come, we refuse to hear and obey, because we still believe we are safe. We believe we are rich, we have need of nothing. We preach that the Lord is pleased and is blessing us. We stand for freedom of man to build the church, to market and make his own plans, and then declare it is the Lords blessing. But the Lord is not pleased! He cried out to us in this last hour, knocking at the door to anyone who will listen and realize that this Church in America is apostate! We have left the way. We do not obey, nor do we respond to correction. Church of America, the only prayer or plea the Lord will hear from us today is a genuine prayers of repentance and returning. There is no other hope for us.
indeed, we must seek to repent of all our sins. it would be a disaster if we repent too late.
but i think the problem might be that churches are preaching more on God’s love only instead of His anger and wrath. it might not be the intention, but people interpret it as they are safe because God loves them. and hence people may sidetrack because of this.
Yes indeed, we must repent and obey. Their sidetrack is mans plan and it is very dangerous. It leads people to a false Christ and hence they pick thier own attributes of Christ to preach and teach and worship and dismiss the others. When the Lord warns us in the Church, it is not that He is calling us to work for our salvation, He is calling us to live out the truth of our salvation. It is the evidence that we are truly His. With that being said, there is no doubt that the Church is so full of false converts that live their lives for the world and then come and say we are safe. I hear it from the pulpits constantly. Love, grace and peace are the only things preached.
according to Philippians 2:12 we do have to work for our salvation. but of course i
admit salvation is by faith and grace and not through works of men.
i used to be one of the many who thought they can go to heaven. i kept sinning and thought i could go to heaven until a friend told me i won’t get to heaven. haax now i am still repenting. and sometimes i wonder if the world is to end now, where will i end up in? i cannot even confirm where i will go.
yeapx many churches only preach love grace peace and faith. i guess nobody like to listen to pastors telling them they will go to hell if they keep on going about doing their usual stuffs. although it is no good, but people still do that. haix.
First, in response to Philippians 2:12 “work out your own salvation” does not mean you are now doing works to earn your salvation. It means to continue to bring something to fulfillment. This shows our pursuit of obedience and the evidence that the Holy Spirit is working in our life. The Word of God was given to us that we might know the truth and so be saved. We should be in a continual state of repentance. We should abhor sin and love rightousness. We should be dying to self daily and walking by faith in what Jesus Christ finished for us. If that is you, you should live in the victory that you have in your salvation through Jesus Christ. The Lord is mighty to save and keep us. But if we examine oursleves and see our lives and beliefs do not line up with the truth of who Christ is, if we find ourselves living for the lust of the flesh and pleasures of this world, there should be no sense of security or peace. Only a fear of our Holy God. But the good news is, that means we still have time to repent and get back to allowing His access to our lives. It is His desire that none should perish. If we truly love Him, we will obey Him!
‘If we truly love Him, we will obey Him!’
i wonder, what is the reason why you become a christian?
although we should love God, i find myself unable to love Him. i did sense His presence, and i do fear Him, respect Him (although maybe not as much as He wanted but i am trying), and i know He loves me. but i just don’t love Him. the reason i became a christian is because i don’t want to go to hell. it is something like: be a christian and follow the Way or go to hell. well it pretty sums up everything for everyone. how do you start to actually love God in the first place? they said try obeying Him and you will get closer, but in the end, it turned out to be another chore. any idea what i can do?
Now I am starting to understand more and more the things you are struggeling with. Your decision is made only on a individual fear of hell and death. The Lord has not drawn you yet, but it seems seeds have been planted along the way in your life. Your relationship would be summed up like this right now, almost like someone who says yes I know I have a deadly disease, and yes I know you say this is the only cure for it, (I know it works), but I will just hold on to it in my medicine cabinet for a little while, until I am convinced that it will truly work for me. Your feel forced to take it under the “take this cure or die” (and though that is the truth), it can only be you truly believing it, and only the Holy Spirit can open your eyes. The first question is, why do you feel that you are unable to love Jesus, if you know He loves you?
from young when i was a kid i remembered only one very important fact. way before i knew God loves me, i knew that if i don’t become a christian i will go to hell. and i know that i have to follow Christ.
and then i started to get a little desperate that if i don’t start to love God before the world suddenly ends or if i suddenly die then it is the end of me, since that is the greatest commandment – to love your God.
i have no idea why i don’t love Him. it is not that i refuse or i don’t want. i just feel nothing. i feel grateful for all the things He had done, but my love for Him is as much as the stranger down the street, which is zero.
i am doing what other christians are doing, all for the wrong reasons. people go to church to worship, i go to church because i know if i don’t do that i will backslide and fall away. people pray to connect to God, i pray so that i won’t fall away, etc.
i used to ask my friends if they loved God, and when they said they did, i had my doubts. and then i realized it is my own problem after ALL my christian friends i asked said they love God. i also asked around to see if there is any solution, but up till now there isn’t any, so that’s why i am here again asking the same question. is there any way out? i even prayed to ask God to make me love Him.
ps: i am going to sleep. it is way past midnight and i have to work tomorrow. reply you tomorrow. good nitex and sweet dreamx!
the character of God comes thru when you read the bible….it is hard to love someone if you don`t know them. Being a christian is a learning process thru prayer and bible…Noah, Abraham, Moses so many christians in the bible took years and years…….My Pastor has introduced me the God of the bible and like falling in love the more I see the more I love….Ningxin…seek him in your bible…..I`m praying the Holy Spirit will lead you……I am sorry to intrude but I had to say my experiences.
but i have been praying and reading the Bible all these years and there isn’t any impact at all.
When you say you do not love Him, what do you mean. Describe your idea of love. Maybe that will help me understand what you are meaning.
meaning, i don’t feel anything towards Him? i feel nothing for and towards Him at all.
Ningxin, I am so sorry to hear that. I wish I could give you answers, but I can’t. No one can force you to love Jesus and you cannot force yourself. You can only pray in faith, and know that Jesus knows your heart. He will never turn away one who really wants to know Him and walk with Him. That is a promise. If you follow your own emotions or the plans of man, (what they tell you) you will only find yourself more and more frustrated. No one comes to the Father unless He draws them, but once you are drawn and you choose to accept Him, that love will just come. You may have days of feeling empty, days of attacks (I know I have), but His love and power keep drawing you back and restoring your joy. That is the kind of Father we have!
Hello, I feel as though I am interrupting a conversation, but I could not help but to be drawn in.
There was a time I felt the same way. I think in many ways that is the downfall of being brought up in a christian home. We “know” it all…but it’s only head knowledge. What she’s desires is a relationship. She feels empty and that I think is something God put there on purpose.
I went many years feeling like that, and then one day I woke up wanting to worship…I could feel Him drawing me to Him.
My friend, take heart…God is working with you, else you would not feel ..no desire to know and love Him. We do not first love Him…We love Him because He loved us first.
Remember that always. God is working with you…to you it seems like an eternity, for Him is but a moment. Perhaps you need to feel what it’s like to be separated from Him before you can appreciate who He really is…
God promises that He will not turn away someone that truly seeks Him.
He isn’t finished with you yet.